hpca01

Cool cool cool cool cool. They can afford a home in California but they're dirt poor to afford an attorney?

Nah, you can believe what you want to, I don't really care.

For the greater good is definitely a good way to go. But I'd be careful about who decides what is good and what isn't.

In this case, I'd love HSR.

Find a nail house in the way of a magalev.

Nah, you could tell them that at least they had the right to fight it in court.

Unfortunately it's not democratic...It's a representative democracy where the representation is horrible. Yes, I'm no fan of the way the country is.

Yes I can flip a coin and half the time it lands on heads I can then claim that heads is always going to be the outcome of all coin flips.

I worked with a guy back in the day who was a dual citizen and owned homes back there. They were far ahead of us in terms of transportation, payments and conveniences. He went back every year for a month to party, even taking a few of us along.

All those nail houses you see are homes near roads, do you see one in the way of a HSR? You can't build a HSR around a home like you can with a road.

And everyone is free to fight you in court and sue the shit out of you if they find a flaw in your design.

Btw, don't you think that there are others that want to stay but didn't get a chance to? It's just the one dude who gets no water or electricity? No one else wanted to stay in the whole neighborhood?

What do you think happened before nail houses?

How many new highways do you see being built?? I've lived in California all my life and I've never seen a brand new highway being built. I've seen lanes expanded a few feet...But never a new one built.

Also, you can't just put rail tracks anywhere as you can with land.

The politicians clearly work for reelection. Unfortunately, when a human being is placed in a position of power you usually get this kind of thing. Power corrupts.

You could have saved the wall of text and just said America is also bad...It is.

When someone has power, power corrupts. It's a tale as old as time.

It's not a good thing in the long run if someone can do that. I'd have loved the HSR from NCAL to SCAL, would have avoided all those hours on the 5.

There are pros and cons basically, there isn't a system that is perfect.

There's this thing called land ownership which is a right...the state can eminent domain them but they'd have to fight it in court.

Doubt they have that in China, if your home is in the way of a planned development...it won't be soon. You don't buy land from the government there, it's on a lease basis.

That and everyone in politics has to be aligned. If the top down order is to build a HSR, no cog in the system can just slow shit down for the hell of it. Doesn't work that way in the US, as witnessed by the myriad times that the government can never approve the budget before it's due.