Why is it that the Chinese are building massive infrastructure projects like HSR whilst the America and Europe has not had large public projects for decades?
Is this the consequences of a decentralized goverments who rely on private companies to do essential works?
In the UK we cab't even build a high speed rail network across this small island with spending billions before a single mile of rail has been laid.
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Those bullet trains are Japanese, faggot.
My bad
>pic are chinese
Still better than anything we got herr
China's projects for high speed rail is costing them an insane amount of money and it's actually the worst investment they've done in a very long time.
High speed trains going through villages that are built for 10 million with no one living in them for example. Ridiculous amount of money spent frivolously
why do we NEED trains
China is planning for the future, the west squanders its future.
Building HSR for your population if 1.2 billion is not a waste of money at all. It's what money should be spent on..
The economy should serve the people not the other way around
So the public can travel and mass transit and doesn't need to invest so much into cars and reducts traffic jams, pollution and much more
Planning for the future is an excuse used by the authoritarian government to spend more and increase public spending in the name of the common good and goal for the future.
In reality their plans for the future had no real demand for them and only created more public debt, a higher degree of corruption and a bigger asset bubble.
Except this isn't based on demand of an economy at all but through the political sphere
seems like a complete waste of time
Ghost cities and infrastructure will destroy China and the planet
The Chinese economy demands large transits. Imagine the traffic that 1.2 billion can create on there highways
If there was any majority of public support for more infrastructure in the forms of trains you'd see it in the ticket prices of already existing train routes rising. And then that would prove and provide an incentive for already existing parties to invest in more railways services and especially high speed ones.
>So the public can travel
You can travel with a car.
>mass transit
Mass transit sucks. Entire transportation systems scheduled around accommodating everyone else's routes and schedules.
>reduces traffic jams
Traffic jams are only a problem because of poor city planning.
>pollution
>Check out our amazing electric train! It's so clean and green!
>Where's the electricity come from?
>COAL!
HSR in the UK would be a waste of money.
China's infrastructure spending is clownishly wasteful at this point.
because china is an ethnostate
They are far from an ethno state
Westerners are too busy redistributing their wealth to other people to take on any serious projects.
>Why is it that the Chinese are building massive infrastructure projects
Because the country is like a Michael Bay movie at all times?
Well, imagine this: mainland china was africa tier before the ww2 and even then it was pretty shitty. They are trying to catch up to current technology. But chinks are retarded, and will fuck up since they don't care about actual usefulness or the inner workings, they just want to copy and then point at it to say "look we have bigger train, we are better".
> just don’t take the elevator or escalator to get there.
Sad : (
To get to the sweatshop and home again before the rice turns rancid
Remember when two Chinese high-speed trains collided, and the chinks decided to just bury the wrecks right there next to the track?
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CHINKCONCHAING.
wow looks like #i'mwithher now!
>no real demand for them
you have no idea what is happening in china
whenever a HSR station pops up the real estate prices within driving distance skyrockets, because no one wants to be stuck in traffic everyday for hours to get to work when they can take the train in relative comfort and cycle the rest of the way
people are moving from densely populated suburbs and urban centers to half finished buildings in the middle of fucking nowhere purely in anticipation of a HSR station begin built so they can be first in line to prime real estate
some of these places have no running water or electricity, they live off bottled water and canned food for months before the infrastructure catches up!
the demand is most certainly real
>High speed trains going through villages that are built for 10 million with no one living in them for example
aside of dying towns in their rustbelt, there are two lines that fit this category, the one to tibet and the one to xinjiang
those are built for purely political purposes, so yeah they're a huge waste of money from a business standpoint