• randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago

    It does and it doesn’t. The problem I’ve seen with all these new transportation products is the goal to create a “new industry” with it so that the tech can be sold elsewhere in a competitive market.

    The problem is that elsewhere is often the USA … and the US doesn’t buy public transportation tech from foreign entities.

    Quebec buys their trains from France, many nations but their highspeed trail from Japan and China. (I think a few places actually bought a monorail from Disney). It’s a high cost to get into an industry like public transportation at this stage of the game unless you bring something new to the table.

    It does because it’s a national jobs program and offers a boost to the local economy, it doesn’t because in the end it is wasteful, impractical, and eventually too expensive for the taxpayer to maintain.