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It seems as if Europe has most of the worlds great infrastructure projects going on right now, with this and Cross Rail. Is there anything of similar scale goi
by andy_ppp 10y ago
It seems as if Europe has most of the worlds great infrastructure projects going on right now, with this and Cross Rail. Is there anything of similar scale going on in the US, China or India?
EDIT: Answering my own question...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transport_megaprojects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transport_megaprojects
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_megaprojects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_megaprojects
- tobltobs 10y agoThe irony is that this tunnel is part of bigger project, a fast north to south rail connection from Germany to Italy. But Germany nor Italy made any progress until today. Just north of the border the high speed trains have to slow down to 60km/h for about half an hour, because this part of the railway track is still from the sixties. The same on the south in Italy. And it doesn't look like this will ever change. Those railway projects don't have enough prestige for politicians.
- andy_ppp 10y agoHa, brilliant - I always thought it was just the UK that had this problem. End to end high speed rail is hard and embarrassment on behalf of governments is a good motivating factor.
- legulere 10y agoJust look at this gif of the shanghai metro growing from nothing in 1993 to the largest metro system in the world in 2015: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/SHM_evolution_mid.gif https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/SHM_evol...