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Does the US need more railway lines? The US already has ~2 times the railway lines of China with virtually identical area (~3.7M square miles). FTA: "At th
by caminante 10y ago
Does the US need more railway lines? The US already has ~2 times the railway lines of China with virtually identical area (~3.7M square miles).
FTA:
"At the end of 2015, China had 121,000 kilometers of railway lines,
including 19,000 kilometers of high-speed tracks, according to a
transportation white paper issued Thursday. The U.S. had 228,218 kilometers
of rail lines as of 2014, according to latest available data from the World
Bank."
- qaq 10y agoYou are magically ignoring the "19,000 kilometers of high-speed tracks" and will have 30,000 kilometers while we have 0.
- caminante 10y agoI'm confused. How am I "magically ignoring" that? I was addressing "against anything involving steel tracks."
- stuaxo 10y agoYour lines are setup for freight, you need separate lines for HSR.
- melling 10y agoYou're throwing all the rail into one number? Freight and passenger? Amtrak has 21,300 miles of track. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtrak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtrak I think the US officially has 26 miles of HSR. China transports 1.1 billion people a year on HSR. Amtrak carries about 30 million people a year. Why don't more people take Amtrak? It's faster to drive.