• Europe Asks Travelers to Ditch Planes for Night Trains

    From Byker@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 10 13:51:20 2021
    XPost: alt.railroad, rec.travel, talk.politics.misc
    XPost: soc.culture.china

    "ltlee1" wrote in message news:[email protected]...

    On Friday, May 7, 2021 at 1:26:55 PM UTC-4, India's terrible sanitation
    wrote:
    On 7/5/2021 6:23 pm, ltlee1 wrote:

    https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-europe-travel-night-trains-flights/?srnd=premium

    The train system in Europe is old and rag tag.. It will take a lot of
    changes to make the existing train system sustainable in quality service
    and efficiency to suit the expectation of the traveling public by
    airlines.

    And China is the most proficient and cost effective train system builder.

    How long before the poor-quality concrete sends bridges and viaducts
    crashing down?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zplHlJDs1U

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XopSDJq6w8E

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q00nTSAcMhs

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  • From MSB @21:1/5 to Byker on Tue May 11 22:50:37 2021
    XPost: alt.railroad, rec.travel, talk.politics.misc
    XPost: soc.culture.china

    On Mon, 10 May 2021 13:51:20 -0500, "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> wrote:

    "ltlee1" wrote in message >news:[email protected]...

    On Friday, May 7, 2021 at 1:26:55 PM UTC-4, India's terrible sanitation >wrote:
    On 7/5/2021 6:23 pm, ltlee1 wrote:

    https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-europe-travel-night-trains-flights/?srnd=premium

    The train system in Europe is old and rag tag.. It will take a lot of
    changes to make the existing train system sustainable in quality service >>> and efficiency to suit the expectation of the traveling public by
    airlines.

    And China is the most proficient and cost effective train system builder.

    How long before the poor-quality concrete sends bridges and viaducts
    crashing down?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zplHlJDs1U

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XopSDJq6w8E

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q00nTSAcMhs


    How about the 3-Gorges dam ?

    China builds fast and cheap and there's a minimum of
    legit engineering and inspection. Somewhat like Russia
    in the 50s/60s, China prefers appearances over all
    else. It will build a bullet-train system, invite the foreign
    press to take pictures, make praiseful documentaries,
    and then when it all falls down they won't tell anybody.

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