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Don't forget Chinese corner cutting. You probably have to knock 25% off of that if you want infrastructure of a level of quality and safety tolerable to Westerners.
I think it's fair to guess China is less car-obsessed than Canada, and more serious about fighting climate change. That being said, without cheating it becomes pretty obvious we're working with the same technology and fundamental logistics in this map.
Is that a thing? It sounds a bit like some bullshit propaganda from here. China = bad.
I have family from out that way. It's absolutely a thing in the third world in general, and then in China you have an enormous case of single metrics being used for success (like speed of project completion) and so becoming useless.
In the West, people would become outraged by unheated, crumbling train terminals and it would become a political issue. In China, they tend to censor negative political commentary, so the only people who's opinion actually matter are other party officials.
Edit: Lol, two instant downvotes. Looks like someone is big mad about facts.
i think the measure is how many trains carrying industrial chemicals derail in china vs the usa
Well considering China would never report on an accurate number, we'll never know.
Wait until you see the absolute dog shit they are building in the US right now for 4x the cost in China
You have to adjust for labour costs. For reasons that have to do with certain industries not existing in the third world, it's much higher in the West.
Easy to build cheaply when you use slave labor
As another who has been to China a few times and has friends there: It's a thing.
The lack of regulations (better now than even 5 years ago, but still shit (*1), the lack of pollution protection laws (*3) and the lack of care in build quality (*2) in order to drive down project costs isn't just a thing, it's a fact:
(1) https://www.adenservices.com/en/blogs/china-green-buildings-regulations/
(2) https://www.aii.org/chinas-infrastructure-and-construction-problem/
(3) https://shunwaste.com/article/how-do-people-get-around-the-pollution-law-in-china
Seeing that China enslaves people AND has highrises that crumble to pieces yeah, there's definitely corner cutting
But hey, defend China all you want, bootlicker
what do you mean "knock 25% off of that" (off what?) and "without cheating it becomes pretty obvious we're working with the same technology and fundamental logistics in this map"? sorry i'm just struggling to parse this
Off of the remaining size of the Chengdu network after you correct for the other issues in OP's representation.
Regardless of the ethnicity and mother tongue of the workers, smelting and extruding rebar, shipping it and pouring concrete around it is the same process. They can't magically go faster over there, and the reason their labour seems cheaper on paper has to do with the West producing things they can't (yet). If correctly presented, it would be pretty obvious it's not apples-to-oranges like this comparison looks in OP, I think.
I am wondering WTF happened to Toronto line 3, though.
btw as mentioned below, line 3 was cut to make way for replacing it with a line 2 extension
Yeah, the Wikipedia article is pretty long and I can't really make out what's going on easily. Did they not have funding to maintain both?
It was a tacked-on retrofit of a planned ambitious interurban streetcar network, converted to a light rail system after a lot of it was already built. The trains don't even use some of the built track. This used technology that was completely different from the rest of the network and only found there within all of Toronto. The sharp corners the cars weren't particularly designed for effected loud shrieking guitarless metal heard far and wide, loud and clear at the Kennedy bus platforms. When it came time to decide the future of the line, the planners decided to blow it up and start it anew (well, turn it into a three-station extension to Line 2); among other things, all of the above plus relatively low usage and decades of inattention prior to the "what now?" discussions made their usual maintenance unprepared and inadept. In fact, just four months before the planned closure, a train derailed due to failures of track maintenance.
If you're into 15-minute videos, try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvwmiSU7zLY&pp=ygUQbGluZSAzIHJtdHJhbnNpdA%3D%3D
I do like 15-minute videos! Thank you!
It's interesting it still was decent to ride, according to this, in spite of the nightmare backstory.
Can you please "correctly present" what about the classic Chinese cookie-cutter metro technology is deficient and 25% behind Western technology?
For why Chinese metro construction seems apparently faster you can watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehTy-qQVZhM; it's just like them Cape Cod suburbs in North America. Nobody claimed that construction magically works faster. It all comes down to not making new logistical decisions and putting in money.
I don't have rail-specific knowledge here. It's just generally how construction works in places like China or Laos. Many other things, too.
Even if that is true, this is pristine underground rail!