[briefcomment]

One way to overcome politics is to make something sound so cool that the public is generally on board with it.

[dave5104]

I have little faith in something being cool preventing people from being up in arms about infrastructure builds in their backyard.

[handmodel]

100% - thousands of points of local veto

[handmodel]

I feel like this doesn't quite work. The vast majority of people may be for trains but there are so many points of local veto. If a train/hyperloop needs to cut through a neighborhood in order to avoid taking a 5 mile detour the 20 people effected are going to use everything in their power to stop it - who can blame them.

Even road expansion is slow and costly and hard to navigate.

[sandworm101]

>>> ...sound so cool that the public is generally on board with it.

Simpsons. Monorail. The song is what sold me on the idea.

[hammock]

Like.. war?