China debuts 281mph bullet train while the united states still using shyt our ancestors built.

[Artificial Intelligence]

Money for other countries wars but not this

 

[ROFL_GUY]

The public doesn't want it. Only a small portion of people do. Plus Amtrak doesn't even make money. Its subsidized by the government. American's don't want to ride trains. Its really that simple.

There 330million vehicles in China

China: amount of vehicles | Statista

The vehicle ownership in China gradually increased from 2010 to 2023.

www.statista.com

Usa has 350mil people

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Imagine if we could get from dc/ny to cali in 3 hours

 

[ROFL_GUY]

Imagine if we could get from dc/ny to cali in 3 hours

Imagine the oil company profits lost

Meanwhile Saudi Arabian building

Jeddah Tower - The Skyscraper Center

www.skyscrapercenter.com

 

[rabbid]

This is because of car and oil lobbyists. That is it.

looking at this thread its also americans making excuses for their government using reasons that can be easily debunked. shameful shyt because we've throughout history tried to implement high speed rail, its not as if its never been attempted. you can literally read up on why its not a thing... and it aint got shyt to do with individual american desires.

 

[ROFL_GUY]

looking at this thread its also americans making excuses for their government using reasons that can be easily debunked. shameful shyt because we've throughout history tried to implement high speed rail, its not as if its never been attempted. you can literally read up on why its not a thing... and it aint got shyt to do with individual american desires.

The military has high speed rail

 

[Traveler]

Trains don't make sense in hillbilly country

A LA)sf/Vegas loop

NYC/Philly/dc

Texas

Florida


Makes sense

I agree with these, it makes sense in certain areas. Othe rproblem is you have to aquire the land. you can use eminent domain, but the political fallout is more than any polititian wants. They tried to buy the land in Hawaii and it didn't work out like they thought it would. Certain people cashed in.

 

[null]

Massive infrastructure projects are a space in with dictatorships excell because there is no back n forth bickering of politicians n opposition. The glory goes to the government and society not a politician.

It is the one place where democracies suffer. There need to be a way to systematically nullify the delaying and opposing of vital developments just because you don't want the other side to take credit. In other countries people will spend time and money actually blocking developments working against the society for selfish interests and motivations

hogwash

 

[null]

Western European countries are much smaller than the US. I can't comment on Brazil.

add them all together

 

[Traveler]

hogwash

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[null]

We honestly don’t have the manpower and our current foundation doesn’t provide for much flexibility without some serious downtime.

It’s honestly that simple.

People underestimate how enormous and complex something like that is. We got 1/5 the population and manpower of China and some crazy terrain that’s already surrounded by infrastructure to manage.

I’m looking at the 5 freeway from Downey to East LA and this shyt took nearly 10 years to add a whole other lane and they couldn’t even extend it because there’s no room. Same goes for the 91 freeway into the Inland Empire, shyt took like 20 years to add a decent, working, partial express lane. The difficulty is that buildings, houses and roads were already pressed up next to the freeway. Building extra lanes is difficult because there’s no room to add it.

It’s tough to move existing infrastructure in place to install new stuff. China has an advantage in that they don’t have a bunch of older, critical legacy systems they need to keep intact so they don’t have a bunch of constraints standing in their way. We can’t simply knock things down and rebuild it on spot because a lot of people are using what we’d be knocking down and that’s a big vacuum in the meantime.

Like look at the bridge that collapsed in Baltimore. Pretty sure there not being a bridge there is hindering a lot of shyt. Well, trying to shut shyt down in order to build something new on top of it would be the same thing as it’ll be unusable during construction.

We have a lot of shyt in this country that wasn’t built in modular fashion so it’s difficult to swap in and out for a new system efficiently. China has been building modularity for awhile now because that’s simply a newer and improved way to do things. When your main systems are built with newer practices, it’ll be much easier to improve and scale.

everybody and they mama is building advanced infrastructure

 

[null]

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Drag and drop countries around the map to compare their relative size. Is Greenland really as big as all of Africa? You may be surprised at what you find! A great tool for educators.

www.thetruesize.com

you need to spell it out for me.

high speed from spain to romania is less then the distance from dc to NYC.

why no high speed between those two cities.

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now generalise my statement

 

[mastermind]

hogwash

And these countries were in war nearly 80 years ago.

 

[null]

And these countries were in war nearly 80 years ago.

along with the USA, japan, china ... maybe ...

 

[IIVI]

everybody and they mama is building advanced infrastructure

If you saw how slow it moves out in America, you’d probably be less optimistic.

Baltimore bridge got knocked down last year in that accident, don’t even know the status in that.

Edit, update:
$100 billion spent on the bridge, should be finished in 2028. That’s a short ass bridge compared to an international train network.