World's Worse Traffic Jam.
10-22-15, 01:27 PM
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10-22-15, 02:57 PM
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China High Speed Train (Bullet Train)
High speed trains, which are also called bullet or CRH trains, here refer to G, D and C trains in China. Currently, there are over 1,500 pairs of them running daily, weaving a dense net on China’s territory and bringing great convenience for its people and visitors.
China Bullet Train Tickets Booking, High Speed Rail
China's transportation planners have not been clueless, helpless or idle for the last few decades and have no need of Western backwards looking simplistic sympathy to get on with the job in their real world.
-Bandera
High speed trains, which are also called bullet or CRH trains, here refer to G, D and C trains in China. Currently, there are over 1,500 pairs of them running daily, weaving a dense net on China’s territory and bringing great convenience for its people and visitors.
China Bullet Train Tickets Booking, High Speed Rail
China's transportation planners have not been clueless, helpless or idle for the last few decades and have no need of Western backwards looking simplistic sympathy to get on with the job in their real world.
-Bandera
10-22-15, 04:02 PM
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The hand wringing by the LCF faithful over the "World's Worst Traffic Jam" would be better directed at getting similar improvement as previously noted at home.
China's transportation planners have not been clueless, helpless or idle for the last few decades and have no need of Western backwards looking simplistic sympathy to get on with the job in their real world.
-Bandera
10-22-15, 05:10 PM
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When not busy Teeming the Chinese are actually implementing improvements to their transportation infrastructure exceeding even the vaunted capability of MARTA or AMTRAK.
The hand wringing by the LCF faithful over the "World's Worst Traffic Jam" would be better directed at getting similar improvement as previously noted at home.
China's transportation planners have not been clueless, helpless or idle for the last few decades and have no need of Western backwards looking simplistic sympathy to get on with the job in their real world.
-Bandera
The hand wringing by the LCF faithful over the "World's Worst Traffic Jam" would be better directed at getting similar improvement as previously noted at home.
China's transportation planners have not been clueless, helpless or idle for the last few decades and have no need of Western backwards looking simplistic sympathy to get on with the job in their real world.
-Bandera
10-22-15, 05:51 PM
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When not busy Teeming the Chinese are actually implementing improvements to their transportation infrastructure exceeding even the vaunted capability of MARTA or AMTRAK.
The hand wringing by the LCF faithful over the "World's Worst Traffic Jam" would be better directed at getting similar improvement as previously noted at home.
China's transportation planners have not been clueless, helpless or idle for the last few decades and have no need of Western backwards looking simplistic sympathy to get on with the job in their real world.
-Bandera
The hand wringing by the LCF faithful over the "World's Worst Traffic Jam" would be better directed at getting similar improvement as previously noted at home.
China's transportation planners have not been clueless, helpless or idle for the last few decades and have no need of Western backwards looking simplistic sympathy to get on with the job in their real world.
-Bandera
10-23-15, 12:38 AM
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When not busy Teeming the Chinese are actually implementing improvements to their transportation infrastructure exceeding even the vaunted capability of MARTA or AMTRAK.
The hand wringing by the LCF faithful over the "World's Worst Traffic Jam" would be better directed at getting similar improvement as previously noted at home.
China's transportation planners have not been clueless, helpless or idle for the last few decades and have no need of Western backwards looking simplistic sympathy to get on with the job in their real world.
-Bandera
The hand wringing by the LCF faithful over the "World's Worst Traffic Jam" would be better directed at getting similar improvement as previously noted at home.
China's transportation planners have not been clueless, helpless or idle for the last few decades and have no need of Western backwards looking simplistic sympathy to get on with the job in their real world.
-Bandera
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12-13-15, 04:32 PM
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I thought most of us were discussing China as an interesting case study. With their rapidly growing wealth, urbanization, and modernization, they have had massive uptake of automobiles, causing huge problems with gridlock and pollution; and they have been attempting to mitigate that by also investing very heavily in mass transit. It's very illustrative, as it replicates and perhaps anticipates developments elsewhere, ie. North America.
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12-13-15, 04:42 PM
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My take on this is a bit pessimistic..I just think humans at the moment have blinders on and just need to build more cars and roads so they can have a J..O..B.. Cars have become a way of life.. We all have jobs that either directly or inderectly depends on them for our livelihood. No matter how car lite or car free we try to be at this moment in history the car comanies have taken over the world. When ever a car manufacturer moves in a town jobs are created ..when they leave jobs and carreers leave also.. I dont know what the answer is but I do know that continued mass production mass comsumption of cars as well as other manufacture can not and will not be tolerated by mother earth... Either in our life time or that of our kids some major upheavel will take place with either earth itself or our inability to provide either air or water or food ....only then will the internal combustion engine be revealed to what it truely is.. The internal workings of HELL........
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12-13-15, 04:54 PM
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I don't know too much about China but I think only Chinese people can make a decision about what's best for their people and their country. I was reading that car sales in China were up 14% last year and 20 million vehicles were sold. That right there tells me that Chinese have already decided what they want. We can all argue and debate about how bad the traffic and pollution is in China but in the end it won't change a thing, because none of us lives there and none of us has any influence over there. I think a Chinese would have a good laugh at some of the westerners if they knew that the main reason why some people over here are giving up driving is because they think it will prevent global warming and save the planet.
