China Aims To Ride High-Speed Trains Into Future

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Look I love trains, I hate long car journeys, I can't drive but I've resigned myself to eventually learning because the fact of the matter is it'll probably cost far less to just phase out of fossil fuelled cars and replace them with electric than it will to tempt the families, boomers and all sorts of entitled mouth breathers to take a train once in a while because MUH FREEDOM and also the infrastructural cost of the rail network itself. Like parochial boy explained the investment should go into big metro areas (and I consider Flander + the Netherlands for example to be one big metro area where eventually a 10 minute supertrain from Brussels to Antwerp would make sense) just so cities don't turn into the giant parking lots we made them until the Ecologists came to power.