In the capitalist west, it is frowned upon to plan further than next years earnings report.
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3 years with that much difference is pretty incredible I gotta say.
For contrast, where I live there's an LRT line that's been under construction for over a decade...
I remember seeing this circulated on reddit as proof that China was on the brink of collapse.
There was a 60 Minutes over a decade ago about the economic collapse awaiting China. It showed large apartment buildings and massive freeways that were underutilized, with foreboding narration saying that it was a sign of corruption among real estate developers or officials or something. In light of the 2008 collapse I think it was projection and coping about the continual failures of neoliberal capitalism, and reflective of the common western worldview that sees China as a scheming villain.
Trains, no matter the elevation, should be used to connect REAL suburbs to cities. Connecting small, poor towns to city centres via public transport is how you do urbanism properly.
look, we took a picture on a construction site and the construction was gasp only partly completed
A more neutral title could have been something like:"Urban Expansion Project Set to House x Million on Track to be Completed Ahead of Time". And instead of literally framing a picture in the most unflattering way possible, they could have shown a 3d model with a birds eye view of the city planning, and maybe workers who are involved like the architect explaining it.
Tbf if this was done in America. Nothing would happen and we would just have a station in the middle of no where. I wouldn't be surprised if this happened when we did have trains.
Yea, we are about to have dozens of abandoned and/or half completed billion dollar data centers around the US.
Fingers crossed ...
It's exact how a lot of towns formed when we had trains. Trains needed fuel (coal, wood) and water....a lot of it and unreasonably frequently. Stations were built regularly along tracks. Towns formed around those.
A lot of them sure. But America has never built things for peoples needs but instead trying to force needs on people to make a profit. So there is\was probably a station built because of some investor thinking it would make him money and the market shifted or something.
and that's what makes this kind of propaganda work because people naturally project their own lived experience onto China
Yes sadly, I know from experience.
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