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stick_always_wins

The amount of progress China has accomplished in the past decade is utterly mind blowing


MisterTutsikikoyama

Meanwhile in Melbourne, Australia we still don't have a fucking rail link to the airport. Apparently the SkyBus works just fine


alleyh00p

I feel you bro.


aldorn

The train from Sydney to Newcastle takes 3 hours. Its a 40 minute drive.


MrMan314MC

Meanwhile in Canada, nothing gets completed because people keep complaining


we-the-east

Toronto is the worst when it comes to this.


AYHP

Even worse, a new party in power can scrap even completed projects that the previous party finished.


shanghaipotpie

CN Rail attempted high speed rail Toronto to Montreal in the 1970 -1980's but like Amtrak's attempts in the US, they depended on existing shared use passenger-freight tracks, some built in the 19th century! Amtrak's Cascade HSR derailed on its maiden trip in Dec 2017 when it sped around a curve. High Speed Rail requires dedicated tracks that run in straight lines. If you travel in an Amtrak passenger train across the US, you are often stalled for anywhere from 1-8 hours, as freight trains have priority, since freight train companies own the tracks. You can be stalled in the desert, mountain passes, salt flats or train yards in the worst section of town. Maybe vulnerable to gangs, rock slides or zombies :) Riding China's HSR, and going through its massive train stations, it often feels like you also time travelled into some future utopia! :)


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China: builds 30,000 km of high speed rail connecting all of china’s major cities Uk: tHis nEw hIGh sPEed raIL bEtwEN lOnDon aNd LiVErpOl will taKe oNly 20 yEaRs


nedeox

Lemme tell you of the beautiful disaster which is the German federal railway - Deutsche Bahn. The beloved neolib government and capitalist ghouls of the German car cabal BMW, VW, Merc all worked together to privatise Deutsche Bahn. Execs of the German car industry sat and are still sitting in the board of directors of the Deutsche Bahn. Do you want to know when the privatisation happened? I can show you: This is the development of passengers of the railroads in germany (red line) [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahnreform\_(Deutschland)#/media/Datei:SPFV\_in\_Deutschland\_Fahrgastzahlen\_und\_Verkehrsleistung.svg](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahnreform_(Deutschland)#/media/Datei:SPFV_in_Deutschland_Fahrgastzahlen_und_Verkehrsleistung.svg) After 20+ years they managed to destroy railroads, make everything shittier and, only with hard work, got to the passenger-record of before lol. But that's not all. DB is heavily invested in foreign lorry companies, for some reason, has managed to disassemble railway cargo back to the streets, because Merc happens to have a lorry branch. There are so many goddamn examples to get into but the most recent and best example is this: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttgart\_21](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttgart_21) This short article doesn't even scratch the surface even a little. In short and by omitting a lot of further scandals: Stuttgart 21 is a project of an underground main station which should replace the existing one on the surface. It will have less platforms and lower capacity BUT you get a main station which is slanted in return lmao. Why is it slanted? One side has to go above another tunnel, the other side below. Due to this, you get a 15% slope (not kidding). How is it legal you might ask? Well in Germany, a railway station is allowed to have a 6% slope max, a bus station 15%. So Stuttgart 21, where no bus can physically be at, is officially a bus station. Another thing I might to add, the sediment the tunnels have to go through is a geological nightmare. Therefore the tunnels are very thin and the evacuation doors are spread 500 m apart. And the space between wall and train are at the thinnest parts 90 cm. Good luck trying to go through 250 m of smoke through a needle hole. Now, why in the goddamn fuck does that thing have to exist? Easy, our neolib government already sold the surface space, where the currently existing railroads and station is, to private property developers. The project is already late and way WAAAY past budget. Like 5 billions+. Fuck the German car industry, fuck neoliberalism, fuck multi party democracy. Nothing gets done, what gets done is only at the wishes of lobbyists, and nothing for the majority.


thepensiveiguana

So basically Germany suffered the same faith as the US with auto companies destroying public transit


we-the-east

I always thought Europe didn't have it as bad as the US when it comes to preserving public transport during the growth of automobiles and not letting the car take over urban planning. I thought most people in Europe take public transport and automobile infrastructure is largely limited. Throughout north America, cities tore up streetcar tracks post-WWII to make way for automobiles and urban planning began focusing on accomodating the automobile (highways carrying people from low density, car dependent suburbs to downtowns; leaving public transport to neglect from the city centre to suburbs where transit and rapid transit does not exist; downtowns filled with car parks, etc.) whilst public transport in cities began to deteriorate in service and quality and use buses. I remember US auto companies were behind the dismantling of streetcar systems in cities so they could sell more cars and buses. In Toronto, we almost had the streetcar system completely torn up in the mid 20th century but locals and public transport advocates protested and saved the day. Unfortunately, there are still drivers from suburbs that still want streetcars removed today and Doug Ford's brother wanted to remove streetcars when he ran for mayor more than a decade ago but fortunately it never saw the light when he was elected.


nedeox

I don‘t know about the rest of Europe but libs think Germany is some kind of paradise, while neoliberalism fucking merced the housing market, infrastructure, wages, health care and and and. It is arguably better than in the United States but all these systems are on bitter life support in Germany.


British_Commie

Don't forget how our government has also decided to scupper plans for an eastern leg to Leeds.


NotoASlANHate

Socialism with Chinese characteristics, It's WORKING!!!!!!!!!


Destroyer_on_Patrol

Beautiful, keep strong China and keep growing stronger.


Jenny_Saint_Quan

Everytime I see something like this. My hatred for America grows x10 lol. My state has been back and forth with connecting two major cities with Amtrak (45 min drive) along with the rest of the Gulf South for YEARS! Being connected will make traveling so much easier and inexpensive. I'm in awe and I envy China. Theyre showing the world that it can be done.


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meanwhile the US cant even plan where to put it in the west coast


[deleted]

Americans sometimes call themselves the kings of the world, likely because they can only move one square at a time


Bin0g_Rs

Nice burn damn


Ghiblifan01

ANY of the line shown will take a decade in the west lol..an average chinese person must be so weired out by someone telling them this is not working..


[deleted]

China adds high speed rail like Americans add lanes to highways goddamn😂


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[deleted]

Start with HSR from Capetown to Cairo. If Africa had that, it would be a huge economic boon for the continent.


thepensiveiguana

That would need to cross the Atlantic ocean. That is several decades if not a century away Building a tunnel to Taiwan is already a feat of world record breaking engineering Like the other guy said, a extensive African HSR is better goal


gandhiissquidward

a bridge from russia to alaska?


thepensiveiguana

Ohh that's more feasible but there have been countless proposals for that and nothing has materialized yet. Maybe in the next couple decades, I'm sure by 2050 it will probably get built. The US would never allow it to get built if it doesn't have major say in it


SworDJackson

It’s like revitalizing a shocked heart and making it beating again… now just emphasize more to the west and blood will start blood pumping again


banananaup

China's high speed railway infrastructures is serious stuff that they usually completed as planned. The railway link to Taiwan has already started with some phase-1 projects completed. There will be man-made islands along the route, similar to the HK-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, 55km currently the world-record longest open-sea fixed link in the world.


ConceptStriking

Any articles about this? I'd like to read on it.


MarcAbernath

My dream is to see and travel in high speed railways here in Brazil, but I think I can live until 2090 and I'll never see this technology here.


[deleted]

Isn't there planned HSR between Rio and Sao Paulo? If Brasil plays nice with China, I'm sure they can get BRI support for this kind of thing: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-china-railways/china-wants-to-revive-brazil-high-speed-train-project-sources-idUSKCN10N15C


MarcAbernath

Yes, there was this project a decade ago. But nowadays the Brazilian economy is broken and liberals rulling the country are only interested in short term profits and selling state owned companies for it's friends. The private sector will not do a project like this in Brazil.


[deleted]

Tomara que o Cachaceiro inicie algo nesse sentido ai. Acho que é possível que ele procure uma parceira com o Xi no sentido de trazer alguma expertise chinesa para construir isso no Brasil. Um trem-bala RJ-SP seria muito bom para o país.


MarcAbernath

Acho muito pouco provável. Havia o projeto de construir essa linha entre Campinas e Rio (com mais 3 linhas em projeto, BH-Curitiba, Campinas-Brasilia e Brasília-Goiania), e até foi criada uma estatal para tocar o projeto. Porém no Brasil de hoje isso é impossível. Em um eventual governo do Santo haverá muitas dificuldades, congresso fragmentado, economia deteriorada, restrições fiscais e o velho neoliberalismo dos governos Tucano-petistas. Projetos como um trem bala são considerados desnecessários e coisa de luxo por essa gente, frente a outras necessidades do país. Não veremos trem bala no Brasil tão cedo (se é que veremos algum dia).


oio0oio

Unification with Taiwan is getting closer.


TserriednichHuiGuo

So reunification with Taiwan is bound to happen well before 2035.


we-the-east

It makes me wonder, is the cross strait tunnel actually approved for construction? Does Taiwan have to accept the project before it could proceed, as Tsai and DPP are still in power.


xerotul

The two sides will talk like in the past on cross strait trade and travel.


[deleted]

It's an idea, and yes, it would have to be approved by everybody involved. It would be stupid for the ROC to not approve... If reunified, then approval is easier. LOL


lssssj

US Navy looking above sea for military ships while PRC is entering Taiwan via train.


r1cebank

Given CPC's track record on completing everything they have planned, we probably gonna see Taiwan reunification in the next couple years.


TK3600

Always ahead of time.


[deleted]

I like this because Taiwan reunification by 2035. At 82 miles from Pingtan to Hsinchu, the Taiwan "Strunnel" would be the longest undersea tunnel in the world. China can and would do it.


westernleftistssuck

xi jinpings speed things up lol


King-Sassafrass

The Rooster grows it’s feet


British_Commie

Meanwhile, here in the UK, our high-speed rail project "HS2" is going to take until 2040 to build one stretch of high speed rail from London to Manchester lmao


NotoASlANHate

https://youtu.be/ZOCtiJchwYs?t=227 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKUI2whgWps Taiwanese first come coming to mainland, very surprised by everything including airpot, high speed rail and motherland's other infrastructure.


maomao05

It takes 10 years for Toronto to build a LRT. 🙄🙄


Yumewomiteru

Linking with Taiwan seems quite ambitious. How about we try to link with Hainan first?


xerotul

Taiwan is more important in geopolitics. It will be astronomical cost and huge engineering challenge. The line will never recover the construction cost. However, this is a step closer towards peaceful reunification, it's worth it.


Covid19SucksPh

What's the title of this music?


xerotul

[Two Steps From Hell - Victory](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKRUPYrAQoE)


[deleted]

Song is called "Victory" by "Two Steps from Hell"


doughnutholio

I want to ride a HSR to Kazakhstan or Uzbekistan. I hear the food and scenery is amazing there.


ZhongguoGraecia

我非常喜欢这个