>>60631346>how come japan does it since the 70s and it just werks?Does it? What’s going on with the Chuo Shinkansen?
Why is 99%, no joke, just conventional HSR expansion?
China has already built a sprawling HSR network which people love to link on X as how fast china builds new rail. If they’re pivoting to maglev, they’ll quickly discover why developed countries cling to legacy systems, integration, cost containment and other gov shit.
Maybe they figure it out, and then it's going to be Wakanda who implements that new proven easy to implement solution.
That said China is ready to destroy existing systems, I've heard accounts from Chinese why Europe clings to history and doesn't destroy cultural useless stuff and just builds high tech, high rises. Probably Mao instilled in them the need to destroy for new stuff to happen. But then comes the question about why they claim Taiwan stole all their shit, while it's just old chinese that fled with their wares. Like how now enlightened African nations say Bri'ish museums stole everything and when they get it back, it gets stolen, lost or destroyed.
Idk about the US, the country seems extremely big for electric rail to be economically feasable with long distance power transmission.
You say they're bunker fuel burning meme engines, have you ever seen a cross section of what it looks like? The complexity is absolutely insane.