"China has risen to be the world's largest urban rail transit construction market," Jiao Tongshan, vice-chief of China Communications and Transportation Association, said at the conference. At present, 14 cities are building 46 urban rail lines, which total 1,212 km, he said.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
China Again
Imagine if we were building 46 urban rail lines right now. We'd be China.
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If we could build 2100 km (1300 mi) of rail for $117 Billion, then we'd be China.
John, where have you been. The U.S. spent $117B dismantling rail already built.
Imagine how much it would cost us to rebuild it. I am assuming that it is mostly heavy rail/subway that China is building.
$90mil/mile is not cheep - even by US standards
It is if it's mostly subway/heavy rail which I believe much of it is...
With $117 billion you could build 2925 miles of high speed rail line or 11700 miles of normal railroad track.
With G$117 you could build 7200000 miles of dirt track.
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