Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Because they can do it and we can't anymore.


China has opened the longest high speed rail line, linking the capitol with Guangzhou.
China began service Wednesday morning on the world’s longest high-speed rail line, covering a distance in eight hours that is about equal to that from New York to Key West, Florida, or from London across Europe to Belgrade.

Bullet trains traveling 300 kilometers an hour, or 186 miles an hour, began regular service between Beijing and Guangzhou, the main metropolis in southeastern China. Older trains still in service on a parallel rail line take 21 hours; Amtrak trains from New York to Miami, a shorter distance, still take nearly 30 hours.

Completion of the Beijing-Guangzhou route is the latest sign that China has resumed rapid construction on one of the world’s largest and most ambitious infrastructure projects, a network of four north-south routes and four east-west routes that span the country.
Nd thanks to our Republican/Teabaggers, we are too broke to afford anything nice anymore except lots and lots of shiny goodies for the Pentagon.

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