$126B could carpet the entire 494-mile California high-speed rail route in $100 bills
john__allard · x · 2026-10-23
A vivid scale comparison: $126 billion is enough to lay a 50-foot-wide carpet of $100 bills along the entire 494-mile proposed California high-speed rail route — and still have $9 billion left over.
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