China putting brakes on bullet trains

[westfalen]

All's not well in high speed train paradise.

 

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2011/04/15/2003500818

 

A bit of reality sinking in?

[keitaro]

their bullet trains are inferior to japanese ones anyway.

 

There only faster due to long lengths of straight track.

 

if japan were comunists and could tell people to f off and build straight tracks I could see the e5 being much faster to it's limited speed restraints.

[bikkuri bahn]

A bit of reality sinking in?

 

Yes, as the Chinese bubble market will sooner or later experience.  Sustanied 350km/h+ running is just not feasible, it was as if officials were denying the laws of physics.  Hopefully we will see the fairy tale proposals of 500km/h steel wheel trains also fade away. 

[keitaro]

maybe 500 kms hr on tripple track with a roller coaster style wheel system for extra hold to the track hahahaha

[Mudkip Orange]

When the North Shore test ran the Electroliner at north or 110mph in the 1940's, the head of the line ordered the motors nerfed so the trains would balance at about 80mph. The North Shore was STRICT about maintenance, and they weren't about to deal with the overhaul schedule that would stem from sustained 100mph+ operation in service.

 

Improvements in the electrical system eventually brought the nerfed motors to 90mph, but never higher.

[Guest ___]

Reality's a b!tch isn't it, China ^_^

[to2leo]

I am glad the Chinese Railway Ministry is coming to senses about safety, energy consumption and technological limits.  Communist or not, a country that is able to use its rainy days money to revive the economy by investing in environmental infrastructures that virtually change the pattern and quality of travel for its own people in 3+ years is nothing to sneeze at.

 

In countries like ours, we are now billions and in some cases trillions in the hole because our govn't decides to use the same money to rescue the banks who created a biggest recession in 50 yrs.  Did we get the bonuses like the bank CEOs in return?  Did we solve our transportation problem?  The only thing I see is we are more in debt.  A debt from stimulus money that is created without our consent as to where to invest it.

 

You say we have the right to vote?  Yes, we do! It costs us 300 millions more in my country of 40 million people and we have a choice to decide the same governments who got us in debt in the first place.

[Mudkip Orange]

to2leo, you missed the memo. Investment in infrastructure is Socialism and Socialism is a Very Bad Thing. The bankers, on the other hand, are the leaders of the Free Market, and propping up the Free Market is why government exists.