Good read. Went to the article. It was fine.
I like HSR. I use it to travel to Guangzhou quite often. To Beijing and Shanghai I typically fly.
An extra 20 RMB gives me first class treatment. I like that.
Everyone on FR is all about how America is great. Rah rah. Meanwhile they are totally oblivious to all the changes going on around them. Change is good, but if you are blind to it, you suffer the possibility of getting “blind-sided”.
Last time I took a train in the USA it was pathetic. Everyone was old, ugly and very... very rude. The A/C hardly worked, the bathrooms were as bad as Chinese public toilets, and it was expensive to boot.
Back to the article...
Articles that discuss the financial arguments pro and con for any Chinese based business are unreliable. As public financial information is never correct.
“Last time I took a train in the USA it was pathetic. Everyone was old, ugly and very... very rude. The A/C hardly worked, the bathrooms were as bad as Chinese public toilets, and it was expensive to boot.”
In the USA trains are for COAL, not people.
The Interstate Highway System goes EVERYWHERE and everywhere in between. Add the state, county, and local roads and you can go anywhere you want to. Once you get to where you are going, you have your personal local transportation with you.
High speed rail is a liberal pipe dream. It doesn’t fit for the USA.
Americans want to ride their own horses, not a wagon in a wagon train.
A subway ride in the USSR cost me only 5 kopeks.