I-15 LA to Vegas
Intelligently driven, very high speed, multi-tram, rubber wheeled, people movers. Micrprocessor control in each carriage car, diesel electric, good pavement, high performance tires. We can do speeds of 140 MPH between LA and Vegas, moving 200 people per train. We have one working version, the Dutch superbus at 20 people.
We are talking about $10 million dollar a mile build cost across the dessert. Today's technology. Most of the cost comes from the demand for wideouts along the route, the service would make the entire desert basin a commuter possibility. It would solve the the housing bubble in southern California. The roadwork is nothing NASCAR hasn't been doing for years, the diesel electric is General Electric all the way, GM can build the carraiges, California does the systems and software.
You know I will keep an eye out for cost overruns and shennanigans. I can force this into an Open Source architecture. The cost to the state? Give us a protected lane along I-15, and the depression ends.
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