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Over 100 workers died building it.
by woofyman 8y ago
Over 100 workers died building it.
- melling 8y agoChina built 17,000 miles of high-speed rail in 15 years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_China https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_China There’s another 8000 on the way by 2025.
- kochikame 8y agoIt's easy to do when you can just forcibly move people and don't have to listen to what the locals think before you start laying track
- melling 8y agoThat’s a great excuse for getting right of ways. However, that doesn’t explain how they can build 17,000 miles of track and we can’t build 800.
- Sacho 8y agoUm, the US government can do that too? I'm not aware of any government that doesn't hold eminent domain powers.
- Baeocystin 8y agoChina's method of eminent domain is a bit more... forceful than you might be thinking. Source: lived in China
- carlivar 8y agoAh, does China go through the courts for every segment, taking months or years (including determining fair value for compensation)? Dodger Stadium was built by razing a poor but cultural neighborhood and it is now considered to have been unethically done. But it was fast...
- wolfgke 8y ago> Ah, does China go through the courts for every segment, taking months or years (including determining fair value for compensation)? Which sounds like a very inefficient court system to me.
- kochikame 8y agoThe UK government has to go through lengthy rounds of consulting with local citizens, groups, other interested parties in order to build anything like this. Building a new runway at Heathrow took so long because of years and years of consultations and negotiations. China doesn't have to do that.
- dmode 8y agoChina also federally funds them. But God forbid if the US Federal govt spends some infrastructure money on the coastal elites. That will be blasphemy