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I have. Terrible pollution but Shanghai and Beijing make Manhattan seem small, just midrises and high rises as far as the eye can see. But their infrastructure is head and shoulders better and cleaner despite how crowded it is. Tokyo is probably the most intimating megacity in the developed world, but again their infrastructure is head and shoulders better.
I know you haven't been to China before so who are you to speak about it?
Actually, I have. I just got back a month ago.
Do you have any other embarrassing questions or would you prefer to quit while you are behind?
LOL. You definitely got a grudge about a place you'll never visit. It has worse inequality than America but you are a fool if you think a billion Chinese live in abject poverty..... You're stuck in the late 80s and early 90s.
Since you don't know me at all, your post exposes your ignorance.
I just got back from China and enjoyed it very much. No grudge at all.
Central planning is always limited by the present, known and available. It never anticipates let alone creates anything new.
"High speed rail" stands a very good chance of being the 21 Century's canals: the best transport imaginable until someone invented trains. Hyperloop Evacuated Tube Transport could leave HSR stillborn. It could be 90% cheaper to build than rail and 75% cheaper than freeways. Transportation might need only 2% as much energy.
If we want something different we have to let the visionaries run. If we want more of the same only more expensive, go with the bureaucrats.
I have been reading up on the Hyperloop. Seems like one more impractical pipedream. I have yet to see one article explaining just how it's remotely possible for it to be cheaper than HSR to construct, let alone operate.
Did you take a selfie in front of a Chinese bullet train?
I rode the bullet train from Xi'an to Beijing. It was wonderful!
I don't do selfies.
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