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You sure have lots of excuses. “You only save 1.5 hours”. That’s for 180 million passengers a year. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing–Shanghai_high-spe

You sure have lots of excuses. “You only save 1.5 hours”. That’s for 180 million passengers a year. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing–Shanghai_high-speed_railway https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing–Shanghai_high-speed_... Your tactics worked in the US. China does things a little differently. China is building 25,000 miles of high-speed rail. They must be reasoning differently? Think they are testing 480 mph maglevs for a reason?

anoncake 7y ago
> Your tactics worked in the US. That's fascinating considering I've never been there and I think railways (including maglevs when it's a better option than conventional rail) should be the primary transportation system for both passengers and cargo. FWIW, most of my objections don't even apply when building HSR from scratch.