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Vietnam aims to start work on high-speed rail lines to China by 2030 (asia.nikkei.com)

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[–] SeeingRed@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So 6 years to project start. Then just a few more years for completion. All in we are looking to a decade out for project completion +/- a few years.

Meanwhile, in Canada they can't even get a timeline or funding for a single line on the most obvious corridor. And the second most obvious corridor has no timelines, and is only a study of feasibility at this time.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Canada is utterly incapable of building infrastructure, Toronto took over a decade to build a LRT line around Eglinton, and then then found out that the rail width was slightly off so the line is still not operational.

[–] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

So 6 years to project start. Then just a few more years for completion. All in we are looking to a decade out for project completion +/- a few years.

And to think, this is outright slow compared to internal Chinese infrastructure projects. Meanwhile in the US we'd kill someone to get some basic infrastructure built in under a decade.