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In 2008, Californian voters approved funding for an 800-mile rail link between San Francisco and Los Angeles, while at the same time China's government began construction on a similar length railway between Beijing and Shanghai.
Three years later the Chinese line opened at a cost of only $36bil and carried over 1.4bil passengers in its first decade of operation. The first segment of California’s train line will open only in 2033 at an estimated cost of $128bil.
https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/breakneck-why-chinas-engineers-beat-americas-lawyers