My comment: I wrote several times here how crucial is and will be for social and economic development of any country its high-speed and very- high-speed railway network.
While Pudong-Shanghai Airport commercial service was a milestone some years ago, and others such as Beijing-Tianjin, were conveniency links, they will become competitive rather as undergroung or short range railways systems than as true railways systems more oriented to domestic and regional long range distances. While aviation industry will have to focuss on overseas and very long range trips. A dramatic turning point in the history of the humankind as the first railway in service, first car in service or the first commercial airline service did. Fortuntely this time it is going to be a cheaper, cleaner and more convenient transportation system. In that sense, the three hours long Wuhan-Changsha-Guangzhou service covering 990 kilometers (615 miles) at an average speed of 350 km/h (217 mph) through 28 trains daily is the real first very-high-speed railway system in service. And in 2012 once combined and linked with the Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan in service since months ago and its Beijing link, the backbone of China s economy will then be fully covered in a roughly 9 hours trip. "China plans to have high-speed rail services running between 70 percent of key cities by 2020, which would cover more than 80 percent of the airline network. About 16,000 km of railway for 350-km/h trains will be built on the mainland in the next 10 years" (1) (1) Wuhan-Guangzhou bullet train link to hit airlines hard http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-12/26/content_12705527.htm Video Another long-distance high-speed railway operating in China http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W30Yr5TCBA Peace and best wishes. Xi -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World-thread" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/world-thread?hl=en.
