[justrealist]

They could have spent the time they used building this website building 1 actual mile of high-speed rail.

[MOARDONGZPLZ]

My guess is that the web developer skills needed to build this website and the rail building skills needed to build high speed rail are highly orthogonal. Plus their project isn’t high speed rail, or rail at all as far as I can tell. Do you mean “building [one] actual mile of animal crossing” maybe?

[kjkjadksj]

The skills are orthogonal but the money used to pay for the skills is fungible.

[justrealist]

CALTRANS is the largest contributor to this animal crossing.

[Rebelgecko]

This whole project (includes additional bridges once this main one is done) has a budget of $92m.

For CA HSR, I saw a quote of $200m per mile, but the article is old enough that I imagine the costs have gone up even more in the meantime.