by Trainer
"BEIJING - China announced Monday it will spend $22 billion to build two of the world's most ambitious railway-building projects — the nation's second magnetic levitation train and a high-speed railway linking Beijing and Shanghai....
... The 820-mile Beijing-Shanghai link will use wheeled trains traveling at up to 220 mph, said an announcement by the country's top industrial planning agency, the Cabinet's National Reform and Development Commission."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060313/ap_ ... t_trains_4
What do the Chinese know about the long-term benefits of enhancing their passenger rail infrastructure that we don't?
... The 820-mile Beijing-Shanghai link will use wheeled trains traveling at up to 220 mph, said an announcement by the country's top industrial planning agency, the Cabinet's National Reform and Development Commission."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060313/ap_ ... t_trains_4
What do the Chinese know about the long-term benefits of enhancing their passenger rail infrastructure that we don't?