there is this railway line in tanzania called the TaZaRa railway (almost completely fallen apart now...) ... it goes from Tanzania to Zambia..... the thing with this railway line is it was built by the chinese in the 70s as a "gift" to socialist tanzania.... the most striking thing about it, is the style of construction. It has been built with some relentless, unstoppable philosophical motive - there are small hills and mountains along the line, the chinese could have easily gone around the mountains, but they have chosen to blast and tunnel through them again and again...
On 4/6/07, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
sometimes, india's long-worn excuse that "we can't do things that well in a democracy" has a ring of truth to it. the economist's diarist on efficient construction in beijing under the guise of olympic preparations puts it well: http://economist.com/daily/diary/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8951298
