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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JDoll8OEFE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JDoll8OEFE Please, I urge you to watch this. It explains thoroughly why the situat
by WilliamEdward 7y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JDoll8OEFE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JDoll8OEFE
Please, I urge you to watch this. It explains thoroughly why the situation for railroads is very different between China and America.
tl;dw:
America is more spread out, has better airline control, and less of a political incentive to expand public transport, than China.
- simion314 7y agoIsn't the density a bad excuse since you can add the infrastructure only in regions with large density like California?
- geogra4 7y agoYeah - this is why I find that argument very specious. Florida has a higher population density than France but there's no TGV equivalent running from Jacksonville to Miami
- WilliamEdward 7y agoIt's only one of the arguments. Florida has neither the political incentive nor the restrictions on air traffic to put pressure on government to build these things.
- simion314 7y agoBut the excuse is wrongly used, nobody is expecting bullet trains in Alaska or low populated places. So mostly people/politics are to blame and not terrain or density.