Raising the money seems like only half the task to me – otherwise you could spend your lifetime fundraising, only to see it spent on some trash like Hyperloop (at best: “public transport” that only helps if you already drive a car, at worst: deliberate waste of public transport funds) or the UK’s HS2 (connect commuter dormitories to London 4 minutes quicker by tearing up half the countryside, instead of restoring the 50% of the network that was axed in the 1960s and never came back)…
Raising the money seems like only half the task to me – otherwise you could spend your lifetime fundraising, only to see it spent on some trash like Hyperloop (at best: “public transport” that only helps if you already drive a car, at worst: deliberate waste of public transport funds) or the UK’s HS2 (connect commuter dormitories to London 4 minutes quicker by tearing up half the countryside, instead of restoring the 50% of the network that was axed in the 1960s and never came back)…
I think the best use of people’s cash right now would be a high-profile grassroots campaign – like the red car in Norway, or “Stop the Child Murder” in the Netherlands.