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Hyperwhoops: California's "Other" Bullet Train Project On Verge Of Crashing And Burning
"There was so much excitement generated last week over Elon Musk's hyperloop idea, that the world almost forgot that California already has a high-speed rail project in place. A very, very expensive project. And the problem with that particular $68 billion project, which is just as unrealistic, just as unprofitable, and just as hyper-pipedreamy, is that as the SacBee reports, is that it is on the verge of being shut down now that over 5 years since its launch someone actually did the math and found out that, oops, there is no money!"
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