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As fast as a jetliner, and way more efficient. Can be powered without fossil fuels. This is the future. Where is America on HSR?
Please, I urge you to watch this. It explains thoroughly why the situation for railroads is very different between China and America.
tl;dw: America is more spread out, has better airline control, and less of a political incentive to expand public transport, than China.
And San Francisco is struggling to add 1 mile of underground track. The project is postponed (again) to open in 2022.
As fast as a jetliner, and way more efficient. Can be powered without fossil fuels. This is the future. Where is America on HSR?
And San Francisco is struggling to add 1 mile of underground track. The project is postponed (again) to open in 2022.
they are also struggling to build enough homes for everyone, aren't they?
And San Francisco is struggling to add 1 mile of underground track. The project is postponed (again) to open in 2022.
dang, can we ban this account? It looks very suspicous (posting a lot of pro-China stuff, username, etc.)
As fast as a jetliner, and way more efficient. Can be powered without fossil fuels. This is the future. Where is America on HSR?
The US is the world's largest economy and should be the shining example of amazing infrastructure, high-tech, green cities, and forward thinking policies. California is an especially egregious example in terms of infrastructure investment:
If California was a country it would be the world's fifth largest economy. It has a number of large and successful cities and areas connected along the coastline. San Diego, Orange County, LA, San Francisco. Why on earth isn't there a high speed rail between these cities? Can you imagine the impact of being able to train from San Diego to LA in 30mins? LA to San Fran in an hour and a half?
I took the train once from Irvine to Los Angeles and felt I had gone back in time to 1980. This in one of the richest counties in the world (OC). It's unthinkable in the year 2019, that we are all stuck on roads like I5 and 405, stuck in traffic for hours trying to make it to LA and the alternative is an ancient train trundling along at 50mph.
I hate the fact that an autocratic and repulsive Government is showing up the US in terms of green tech investment and high tech public transport systems, while the US govt is dropping taxes for the biggest companies and lowering spending on infrastructure and public works. This is guaranteed to have a terrible knock on effect over the next 20 years while the US is stuck with an old fashioned and clogged up transit system, polluted cities, and a dependence on fossil fuels.
> If technology proves to be viable, a 2,200-km trip from Wuhan to Guangzhou could be reduced to around two hours Driving, this is only 984km. Shouldn't it be one hour?
As fast as a jetliner, and way more efficient. Can be powered without fossil fuels. This is the future. Where is America on HSR?
American here. Public transportation is seen as inconvenient and for lower class people, so large transit projects like this get no traction. You will never see executives or politicians taking trains to work like you do in European countries. Except in NYC.
Want to fix this? Sure, easy, just scrap the democracy and just don't ask people, send those who object, to "re-education" camps. Or scrap market economy: if all land is government-owned, it won't be an issue at all.
More and better public transport in EU? For same reasons: less democracy and less market economy. More government-owner land, larger fraction of renters who just want cheaper rents (and public transport gives it to them), and they vote in the right direction, less legal opportunities for NIMBYsm.