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I would love to see a parallel universe, where collective transportation obtained the upper hand. Where countryside railroads are still operating, and where roads/highways haven’t consistently led to the expropriation of millions of people worldwide, and to the current car-oriented urban nightmare. See Ivan Illich for a demonstration that car-oriented urbanization is hostile and counter-productive, as opposed to what he calls “convivial tools” (empowering technologies).
I think Japan used to be the world leader in high speed rail, but now its down to #5, behind China, Spain, Germany and France.
This wiki chart is pretty sick
China’s highspeed rail progress is wild:
Any idea what kind of fuel these trains use?
I can’t find numbers on percentages of diesel vs electric ones, but I did find this:
Nice. Thanks very much.
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