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    Seit 2008 gebaute chinesische Hochgeschwindigkeitsstrecke, überlagert mit den USA und Kanada.


    Seit 2008 gebaute chinesische Hochgeschwindigkeitsstrecke, überlagert mit den USA und Kanada.

    Von colinstalter

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    2. colinstalter on

      By comparison [this is the US’s high speed rail „network“](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/High_Speed_Railroad_Map_of_the_United_States_2013.svg/1280px-High_Speed_Railroad_Map_of_the_United_States_2013.svg.png).

      China achieved this while only spending between $300B and $1T. To put that in perspective, the Big Beautiful Bill passed by Trump’s Congress in 2025 is [estimated to cost at least **$3.4 Trillion**](https://bipartisanpolicy.org/explainer/what-does-the-one-big-beautiful-bill-cost/).

    3. No-Wonder-7802 on

      the united states should drop the united part, it’s false advertising

    5. Independent-Cow-4070 on

      „The US is too big!!!“ Mfs when I ask them to explain why philadelphia is too big for another metro line, or why the NEC is too big for true HSR

      ![gif](giphy|Txyz5hPLaevrwJZ1Bo)

    6. gauntletoflights on

      US train lines in the ocean 🤮🤮 ew flooding

      Chinese train lines in the ocean 😍😍🇨🇳 so futuristic 

      /j

    7. SnooPears5432 on

      All the stops on this map show why this would be an abject failure in the US. China has 1.4 billion people, 98% living in the eastern half of their country (which is why they have little rail development in their western half), and lots and lots of medium to large cities with insanely dense population, very close together, as represented by the dots. Rail transport between those points for short to medium-distance trips makes tons of sense. But, the US isn’t settled that way. China has >100 cities of >1MM people and more than 200 cities with >500,000. The US has 10 and 36. If you count US metro areas the number is much larger, but same could be said for China.

      The US population settlement pattern wouldn’t and couldn’t support such a model for passenger travel, not to mention US metropolitan areas are physically huge and much larger & more sprawling than Chinese cities of similar population. High speed rail is inefficient for transporting people over long distances with multiple stops along the way – planes are much better suited to that, and the US air network is vastly larger than China’s. The US has more than 30x the airports China does despite having 1/4 the population.

    8. rKasdorf on

      Dummies will act like having this would eliminate their ability to buy a giant truck and drive 2 blocks to the corner store. You can still do that, Steve, we just want high speed rail too.

    10. Expensive_Ad752 on

      What do you know, the government can provide services to its citizens. /s

    12. volmeistro on

      Good luck convincing most Americans to use public transit over their own private vehicles

    14. bertmaclynn on

      The reason the US doesn’t have a high speed rail system is due to negative public feedback. It seems like most want a high speed rail system, but when it comes down to building it in their area, the environmental/miscellaneous impacts are deemed too great.

    16. spinnychair32 on

      China has 4 times the population density of the US. We also have some of, if not the most efficient freight rail system in the world. Certainly efficient passenger and freight rail aren’t mutually exclusive, but they’re definitely at odds. If you had to pick between the two, you’d obviously pick freight and that’s why we are where we are today.

    17. sun_blind on

      It’s a lot easier to build things when all it takes is the government to say it is to happen. Vs here in America where you have to do environmental studies and wildlife impact assessments. Design and redesign and appease different lobby groups.

    18. TorontoDavid on

      Gotta move a billion people somehow.

      Really also emphasizes the population concentration in China vs the US, for example.

    19. cybercuzco on

      I mean the us would do this too if we had a billion people living east of the Mississippi.

    20. JACC_Opi on

      And Mainland China also build the equivalent of interstate highways at the same time. So, it wasn’t one or the other, it was both!

    21. statsom on

      These comments are so carbrained. Who needs trains when you got cars…in traffic…due to few alternatives for modes of transportation!

    23. whrdoyodrawthline on

      Can’t have rail north to south, like Florida to Chicago, which would help a lot. You have to go FL – NY – CHI

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