This is a truly incredible article that criticizes China’s plans to build high speed rail to under-served parts of China by taking the angle that it won’t make money, and therefore is stupid. Amazing that infrastructure projects that help rural Chinese gain access to a high speed rail network is criticized from the angle of profit-making when making a profit is never the point with infrastructure projects. The NYC subway system wasn’t built to “make a profit,” but that doesn’t mean it was a bad idea. But China bad so somehow them building a crazy amount of high speed rail is bad.

  • Will2Live [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    4 years ago

    “Countries like the U.S. and U.K. that have shown a chronic inability to get high-speed rail built have much to learn from China’s ambition and execution — but China could learn from the more cautious approach to megaprojects seen elsewhere.”

    LOL Cope harder bitch