> Looking at how much high speed rail China has built, and operates, then you look at the USA who cannot event get a train built between to major cities it's qu

> Looking at how much high speed rail China has built, and operates, then you look at the USA who cannot event get a train built between to major cities it's quite crazy that this is such a struggle. One such rail line just opened up going to my friends hometown [1]. Now instead of a 3 hour car ride from the major airport it's 45 minutes by train. The route is roughly half the distance of SF<>LA and wasn't even fully approved till 2019 [2]. [1] https://english.news.cn/20231226/ee2fd2183517440eb11427d25aeb2c6e/c.html https://english.news.cn/20231226/ee2fd2183517440eb11427d25ae... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengdu%E2%80%93Zigong_high-speed_railway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengdu%E2%80%93Zigong_high-sp...