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MindzEye said:
Also, a bunch of the Mexico routes he mentioned have started construction already. Not European high speed, but 200kmh service. The CDMX-Nogales route started construction in April.

The Green line on the left up the Pacific coast shown here:

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CDMX-Quereterao-Irapuato-Guadalajara-Tepic-Mazatlan, ending in Nogales at the border. Mexico is going to be further ahead than the US and Canada both by 2028-29.
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The need in Mexico is greater, because you can't stop trains for extortion money.
 
Population collapse is relative. Collapsing from 1.4B to 700 million would be stunning, but 700 million is still 3 metric fucktons of people in one country and could pretty easily support the monstrous transportation network they've built out.
 
MindzEye said:
Population collapse is relative. Collapsing from 1.4B to 700 million would be stunning, but 700 million is still 3 metric fucktons of people in one country and could pretty easily support the monstrous transportation network they've built out.
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Fair.

And it would be nice to build shit without having to live in an authoritarian hellscape. Need to build shit.
 
It was Portugal.

Anywho, they engineered lotsa impressive bridges on the national highway system. They were pretty damn bigly, had to be equipped with windsocks. Now, they don’t get our freeze-thaw cycle, but it was still pretty damn good. Impressed.
 
lecoqsportif said:
Didn’t we retain the ex ceo of Spainish rail as a consultant?
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Not a consultant. Top exec in charge of construction.

Though, my enthusiasm is a bit tempered in light of the bullshit in Ontario with Go. Brought in a German firm to do the lifting, legacy Go management fought them on a lot of the vision of the project, and we've now lost 30-40% of the scope to fuckery, nonsense, and budget cuts. I don't have a lot of faith in our political stakeholders thinking big and delivering a world class project, even when they hire the right people with the right experience to do the actual work.
 
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If you want to read more about that particular clown show:

www.torontotoday.ca

IN DEPTH: How Metrolinx’s plan to deliver European-style train service went off the rails

GO Expansion will still transform Greater Golden Horseshoe transit — but likely won’t be as ambitious as what was planned just three years ago
www.torontotoday.ca www.torontotoday.ca

TLDR: A bunch of people who have been running rail in Canada for decades thought that they knew better than the Germans they hired, and couldn't find their own ass with a map and a flashlight.
 
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