“The conclusion is based on absolutely zero economic analysis”
the CCCP is literally forcing minorities to be able to ride the trains and genociding slow trains
CCCP?
the USSR communist party
The dark side to the US’s so-called “high speed” rail network is that it isn’t high-speed. The Acela (their one train that can exceed 201 km/h) according to wikipedia only hits its top speed of 240 km/h for 54.6 km of its 735 km route, and according to this person’s GPS tracks it only even exceeds 200 km/h on the portion of its route that is in the state of Rhode Island (a state where there is one stop; there are twelve other stops in eight other states). Its average speed is 110 km/h, so it takes 6 hours 45 minutes h to travel 735 km from Boston to Washington DC.
For comparison, it’s possible to travel the 1,318 km from Beijing to Shanghai in 4 hours 18 minutes, at an average speed 291 km/h (with a top speed of 350 km/h).
Also the Beijing-Shanghai line has more passengers in a week than the Acela has in a year, due to trains in China being cheaper than flying (unlike in the US, and many routes in Europe).
Yes. It’s not private. /s
How dare they rid their populace of the right to not be able to travel wherever they want - thank god we have don’t have working infrastructure here in the west, right?
The dark side:tunnels are pretty dark
Tunnels, maybe. Also night trains.
I think they were talking about how cities at night were brighter than countrysides at night. Like that isn’t entirely normal and doesn’t take place literally everywhere else in the world too…
Yeah makes sense. I was just joking because tunnels are darker and night trains ride in the dark, hence the dark side.
Everything China does has a dark side, because dark side of the force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural…
Meanwhile anything about the west falling apart and the same idiots will harp on about how “more of us are suffering and dying, and that’s a good thing!”
China is rapidly expanding its high speed rail system to rural areas… but at what cost.
China exists but at what cost
the downside of going faster than light is being only able to see darkness
“This conclusion is based on literally YouTuber levels of theory crafting by consumate idiots.”
How is this remotely acceptable to base an assumption off?
Yeah my neighbour turns their ights of a smidge early now, must be some economic hardship or the dark side of insert arbitrary bs here.
The less populated area of China has less railways than the more populated area.
They really just told the writer to “make up something bad about chinas railways, anything”
The conclusion is based on analysis of satellite data showing changes in the researchers’ massive balls trying to publish something this harebrained in an ostensible “scientific journal”
