[leetharris]

In the last 50 years, well before Elon was involved and supposedly sabotaging all this great subway progress, how many new subway projects in America were started and successfully finished?

Maybe Elon's solution is a requirement to make ANY progress because the other ones have stalled out?

I would love a subway. Here in Austin, they proposed a bunch of new trains and subways for billions of dollars. We all voted yes and funded it. After a multi-year study, they revised it to about 1/10th the scope and doubled the cost. It still hasn't materialized.

Do you all realize the problem here?

[fragmede]

I don't know who "you all" is. What I'm saying is that that the money spent on the Vegas tunnels could have been better spent on the monorail system. I'm not in charge of anything though, so me saying that doesn't affect anything.

[tredre3]

> Was that Musk too? Or is overregulation destroying our ability to innovate?

Texas isn't known (to outsiders like me, at least) as burdening itself very much with regulations. It's possible that a blue city like Austin might apply extra regulation over state regulation, but still, are you sure that overzealous regulation is what prevents Texas from building transport? I would have tought complacency, nimbyism, corruption. But not regulation.

If you're right then it's pretty much game over for America, isn't it? Because almost all other states have even more regulatory pressure, right?

[idiotsecant]

>> Making infrastructure is hard, so making dumb infrastructure that doesn't work is better.

Not really following if you're making some other point here.