China has 25,000 km of high-speed railway, accounting for over 60 percent of the world's total
China has 25,000 km of high-speed railway, accounting for over 60 percent of the world's total
Andrew Lee
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Joseph Perez
I am sure a lot of countries would have better railways if they had as many cheap workers as china.
Dominic Reed
good for them
Brayden Walker
I used it a number of times when I lived there and even though it was incredibly cheap compared to UK prices and extremely quick, I do have some complaints
1. Foreigners can buy tickets online but still have to go to the ticket office to pick them up. We can't use the automatic machines.
2. Most stations don't have automatic barriers that read passports at the station entrance, meaning we have to wait in a queue to have our ticket and ID manually checked
3. Even though every Chinese person CAN use the automatic barriers and ticket machines, lots still insist on going to the booths and the manual check.
4. Everyone has to have their bags x-rayed and go through a metal detector, taking up more time. Admittedly you have to do that for long distance coaches and even the subway but it still adds time to my journey.
5. Most HSR users are fine, but it is still China so you get people cutting in front of you at the ticket office, ID check, queue to get on the train, and getting off. You also get people blasting out their stupid fucking 农民 tunes on their Coolpad X29479, even if you pay for a first class ticket. I've heard of it happen in Business Class which is the most expensive ticket.
Nicholas Carter
>We can't use the automatic machines.
Your own fault for not having a local ID
Jason Watson
>passport checks and metal detectors for train travel
Absolute shit tier.
Juan Perez
It's easy when you have a country of 1.5 billion slaves which have to choose between either build railroads during 16 hours per day for $1 per day or to be shot.
Carter Wright
Well it's not like us foreigners have the opportunity to get one
Brody Parker
> Fr*nch flag posting about workers rights
Like clockwork
William Rivera
Soon you'll have to wait in the non-eu line at airports too
Angel Hughes
It makes sense. They have a quarter of the world's population and most of them are concentrated alongside the coast (despite the country's size, most of the West is inhospitable). It would make perfect sense for them to have that much railroad.
They're a socialist worker's paradise much like your political class desires though.
Robert Reyes
Shame, steamworks are comfy
Joseph Brown
China invented the high speed railway.
Ayden Howard
Kinda jelly. Would be cool to take a shinkansen across large chunks of Australia.
David Brooks
>and most of them are concentrated alongside the coast
They have a city around 1,300km off the coast with a metropolitan population size larger than Australia. Kinda crazy.
Isaac Edwards
And?
they have the cheap labour to build them.
Kinda like why America only has such a large rail network because slaves built most of them.
Brayden Ward
Why do you fags get so stupidly defensive when it comes to anything about China. This predictable spastic kneejerk doesn't happen with any other country aside from when burger from Jow Forums read something about guns or wars America was involved in.
Nolan Smith
Chang...
Benjamin James
How do you define high speed railway? What speed is the cutoff? Because the train in that picture doesn't look particularly high speed to me. Maybe 160 km/h.
Wyatt James
What do you want me to say exactly?
I am just pointing out that china has a huge railway network because they can afford to pay people next to nothing with next to no safety regulations.
Isaiah Watson
I don't think the pic in the OP is even a high speed train, if it is i can't find an example of a train looking like that being listed as one.
Joseph Ward
Well, technically it doesn't depend on the train anyway, but on the rail rating. What speed must a rail support so it counts towards the high-speed network?
Elijah White
The lad's just making a decent point, you're being the defensive one here. It's just like mentioning that America became the world power by directly profiting from Europe warring with itself or that Britain even exists as it does because it benefits from defensive geography.
Alexander Anderson
iirc the EU says that if an old line is upgraded to have a speed limit of at least 200 km/h, it can be considered high speed, but if a new line is being made, it needs to have a speed limit of at least 250 km/h to be considered high speed
Hudson Cruz
Yeah it's not, after some digging it is an SS9G Electric locomotive and has a top speed of 170km/h
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David Thompson
Or it is just an example of chinese government knowing what to do to improve the country, and actually doing it instead of focusing in grabbing votes for the next election.
If there was a reliable way to make slaves productive, you can be sure our capitalist friends in the west would already have copied them.
Sebastian Butler
>land in Spain
>follow the non-EU sign
>leads into the EU queue
Ah yes, European border control.
Grayson Allen
Yeah, good on em?
Building infrastructure while they can, smart plan.
building the same kind of rail network in Australia would probably cost 100 times as much so will probably never happen.
Christopher Baker
I'd be terrified to go on any train built in China. The things are probably held together with chopsticks and Elmer's Glue. Kind of like their apartments.
Liam Baker
>in Australia would probably cost 100 times
And it would be from legal costs and endless political peregrinations, not engineers.
Blake Watson
Remove that proxy, Wu.
Levi Long
Chinese train is shit.
That’s all.
Jaxson Richardson
In other news, the sky is blue and dogs bark.