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On time: 30 years includes a lot of time to conduct studies. It's not
30 years of construction.

On China: China's government, occasionally dictatorial in nature,
allows them to lock-and-load labor and initiatives without a lot of
time-consuming discussion. And their lack of infrastructure allows
them to lay a lot of track without a lot of hurdles. The difficulty of the
NEC is that there's significant population density, a highly used pre-
existing rail system and a lot of state governments to align.