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by crazy2be 3420 days ago
Well, a flight from SFO to LAX is $70 if you book at least a couple weeks in advance. If you assume parity for the ticket price, you need to sell an average of 100,000 tickers/day. With 100 passengers per car and 10 cars per train, you would need 100 trains/day, full, in order to make the math work.

I agree that seems pretty dubious. Why on earth is infrastructure so expensive in the US?

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>Why on earth is infrastructure so expensive in the US?

Infrastructure always is, but in the USA it's worse than normal. Nobody is entirely sure why.

Why is an apartment so expensive in SF? Why is an acre of land in Napa or Malibu so expensive?