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. You've got to be kidding me, just how did the US fall so much behind the rest of the world in terms of HSR that they are behind a country with several times lower GDP per capita and a fourth of their population.
www.hsrail.org
It gets even better, at first I wanted to make a thread about the fact that, counting both completed and planned/in construction railways, North Africa is on track to have more HSR than North America, before noticing that North America's figures there don't count certain types of railways.
en.wikipedia.org
Instead, it will have about half as much as North America, and about as much as Turkey, so that means that, even counting railways that are just planned/approved or still being constructed, the US and Canada together are still on track to have only as much HSR as three MENA countries put together, since "North Africa" on that page is literally just Egypt and Morocco, as no one else has any or is planning any. US and Canada are unironically barely doing better than a much poorer region that's barely trying in this area, and is about one or two infrastructure deals with the Chinese away from outpacing the Americans anyways.
. You've got to be kidding me, just how did the US fall so much behind the rest of the world in terms of HSR that they are behind a country with several times lower GDP per capita and a fourth of their population.
Five Takeaways From Turkey’s High-Speed Rail Success Story
Since its first high-speed trains began running in 2009, Turkey has emerged as a global leader in high-speed rail. Roughly 700 miles of dedicated high-speed lines are in use.
www.hsrail.org
It gets even better, at first I wanted to make a thread about the fact that, counting both completed and planned/in construction railways, North Africa is on track to have more HSR than North America, before noticing that North America's figures there don't count certain types of railways.
List of high-speed railway lines - Wikipedia
Instead, it will have about half as much as North America
, and about as much as Turkey, so that means that, even counting railways that are just planned/approved or still being constructed, the US and Canada together are still on track to have only as much HSR as three MENA countries put together, since "North Africa" on that page is literally just Egypt and Morocco, as no one else has any or is planning any. US and Canada are unironically barely doing better than a much poorer region that's barely trying in this area, and is about one or two infrastructure deals with the Chinese away from outpacing the Americans anyways.
