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Visit if you can, and take some bullet trains! We had a blast last year there.
by ErneX 5mo ago
Visit if you can, and take some bullet trains! We had a blast last year there.
- _DeadFred_ 5mo agoShanghai was great in the 2010s. Seems like a different place today. Are the bullet trains making enough to pay down construction debt yet? My understanding is that that has been a struggle, which is going to be a problem when they get past being new and start having more and more maintenance expense on top of paying back construction debt.
- theendisney 5mo agoThey dont have to, they are reqired to make the country work. Its like trying to make us roads profitable.
- munk-a 5mo agoOr having some silly notion that the post service should be profitable. Public services generally provide public good that outweighs their cost. Trying to quantify and charge for that cost is a useless exercise.
- try-working 5mo agoI've been living in Shanghai sinze 2010, with some time in between in Shenzhen. Shanghai is much better now than in the 2010s.
- _DeadFred_ 5mo agoThat is awesome. I hate the weird 'window' we get into places online, I need to learn to ignore it. I loved the city and it's people! I hate the current bs going on in the US against China. It reminds me of the Japan scare crap pushed in the US when I was a kid.
- m4rtink 5mo agoWell, the Shinkansen lines managed to bankrupt JNR in Japan just fine. :) Still they are a massive benefit for the country.
- ErneX 5mo agoI cannot compare with 2010 since it was my 1st time but I liked Shanghai. Chongqing too!