China has 19,000 miles of high speed rail. Shanghai to Beijing is 800 miles (1200km).
Beijing to Hong Kong is 1500 miles.
10 billion people have used it and it’s now at 2 billion passengers a year.
Beijing to Hong Kong is 1500 miles.
10 billion people have used it and it’s now at 2 billion passengers a year.
However, the commenter I replied to claimed that California High Speed Rail would be a short line, when in reality it would have been longer than all but a small handful of high-speed lines, almost all in China.
This article is six years old but it makes it sound like a 500 mile HSR line is not that big of a deal:
https://www.railway-technology.com/features/featurethe-world...
China built most of its 19,000 miles in the last 15 years. Not sure why you discount that.
50 years later there are millions more people in California and infrastructure costs are astronomical.
China will have 30,000 miles of high-speed rail before we have any.
It’ll be interesting to see the benefits in China. Something to think about as your self-driving car navigates the congestion on US highways.
Jerry Brown tried to build it the first time
Not to be too technical here but... 10 billion individuals surely have not used it. Maybe 10 billion fares have been sold or trips made.
That would be 10 billion fares.
So, the 2 billion yearly passengers probably include some repeated people.
You are being pedantic, not technical