With ultra-fast journeys, connected comfort and exemplary punctuality, the Chinese high-speed train is redefining travellers’ priorities, to the point of suffocating domestic air traffic between ... Read more
Over on the armchair urbanism and train experts were talking about how they’re using substandard steel on the rails and all the trains were gonna derail in a few years. They always gotta come up with a reason why China can when the USA can’t.
“China is going to have trains derailing all over the place, trust me”
Always a wild accusation, they have like 2/3 of the world’s HSR track and have had only a single major accident in the network’s lifetime, almost 15 years ago now.
It’s statistically the second safest network in the world if I remember right, and that’s only really because the Shinkansen has avoided having any major accidents at all.
Over on
the armchair urbanism and train experts were talking about how they’re using substandard steel on the rails and all the trains were gonna derail in a few years. They always gotta come up with a reason why China can when the USA can’t.
“China is going to have trains derailing all over the place, trust me”
Meanwhile USA has frequent catastrophic derailments of hazmat…
Always a wild accusation, they have like 2/3 of the world’s HSR track and have had only a single major accident in the network’s lifetime, almost 15 years ago now.
It’s statistically the second safest network in the world if I remember right, and that’s only really because the Shinkansen has avoided having any major accidents at all.
Yeah but the US Interstate system has zero derailments and has been around for decades, so technically it is safer.