• Barley_Man@sopuli.xyz
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    7 hours ago

    China is living in the future because they have highway intersections? I really don’t get this meme. You can find large highway intersections in the US too and that doesn’t make the US any better. Honestly I would say the opposite.

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      6 hours ago

      They’ve blended urban infrastructure with a bunch of green space, and that’s certainly nice. Would be even better if that cloverleaf highway was a rail line instead.

      But if the worst thing you can say about Chinese urbanism is “It could use a few more trains”… eh.

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        2 hours ago

        China is making rapid improvements in high speed rail. It would be nice if we could get that kind of motivation in other countries. China's high speed rail network. 118km in 2008 vs 42,000km in 2023