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"Perhaps a better photo to make your point: http://en.people.cn/n3/2016/0229/c90000-9022441-11.html" http://en.people.cn/n3/2016/0229/c90000-9022441-11.html" N
by rsync 10y ago
"Perhaps a better photo to make your point: http://en.people.cn/n3/2016/0229/c90000-9022441-11.html" http://en.people.cn/n3/2016/0229/c90000-9022441-11.html"
Neither your or your parents photo represents "elevating the rails to avoid interference with the property below".
What's happening in these photos is that either there is a flood plain below the tracks and/or there is a maximum grade (elevation) change that they need to respect and so they are "flattening" the track with those pillars.
Those pillars are not there to be nice, they're there because of physical constraints.
- crdoconnor 10y agoI cited this below: http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2014/07/10/cost-of-high-speed-rail-in-china-one-third-lower-than-in-other-countries http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2014/07/10/co... "Laying track on viaducts is often preferred in China to minimize resettlement and the use of fertile land" I rode across a lot of the country on HSR in 2013 and it was obvious that huge swathes (perhaps most) of the network is on viaducts. Either China is about 40% "physical constraints" (which would make this high speed rail network an even more impressive and our lack of one an even greater failure) or they're actually there to be "nice" (i.e. avoid the need for resettlement/compulsory land purchase).