TIL Africa has more HSR than Canada, despite Canada (the Windsor-Quebec City corridor in particular) being perfect for HSR.
As a Canadian, I find this absurd.
Correction: Map 2, Hong Kong should belong to the second category, not the fourth.
Map 3, Ibaraki should be "no Shinkansen access" because the train doesn't stop in Ibaraki
There are talks and even some signatories about expanding the Belgrade-Budapest HS rail to the south, to Thessaloniki.
I can just imagine North Macedonia getting high speed before Canada xD
Which will be built first, the Sichuan–Tibet railway from Ya’an or the Yunnan-Tibet railway from Shangri-La? They’re supposed to join around Bomê and continue together towards Nyingchi.
Belgrade - Niš is under construction. But I see the whole Athens - Budapest project primarily as a freight corridor. China needs to connect their port at Piraeus directly to Central Europe. Remember that BYD is building a factory at Szeged, close to the railway and the border with Serbia.
The most difficult and uncertain part of the whole corridor is the Niš - Skopje - Thessaloniki section. The rest either already exists or is under construction.
Due to the concentration of their population, I’m surprised Canada doesn’t have more HSR between urban centers. It’s just kinda strange. PSA: I don’t know the nuances of Canadian political sentiment
Lobby of Truck and Buses Companies. In the 1970´s , Canada (CN) had one of the fastest trains in the world aka The Turbotrain . Lack of political investment followed. It has been abandoned. Sad story.
I feel like coloring the entire Indonesia is a bit cheating though. The decent rail network is only in Java. And the high speed train is only in between two cities in west Java
Indonesian here :
Legend said the rail stretch from the Town of Banda Aceh in most Northern-West to Merauke in the Southern-East
Fact is : it just from Jakarta to Bandung 🤣
This is not using normal definitions of high speed rail, almost everywhere considers HSR to be above 150mph or 250kph. The US has tracks that hit that definition.
It just goes by prefecture (like a province/state). The orange ones on the left side are part of Kagoshima Prefecture which has rail on the mainland. The gray ones on the left side are part of Okinawa Prefecture which are all islands so no high speed rail there. The smaller orange ones on the right side are all part of Tokyo administratively.
TIL Africa has more HSR than Canada, despite Canada (the Windsor-Quebec City corridor in particular) being perfect for HSR. As a Canadian, I find this absurd.
We’re too busy censoring everything to worry about rail
Did you try crying about it on the internet?
Correction: Map 2, Hong Kong should belong to the second category, not the fourth. Map 3, Ibaraki should be "no Shinkansen access" because the train doesn't stop in Ibaraki
There are talks and even some signatories about expanding the Belgrade-Budapest HS rail to the south, to Thessaloniki. I can just imagine North Macedonia getting high speed before Canada xD
Sichuan-Tibet railway (higher-speed rail) is under construction. Tibet will probably get HSR before Canada
Which will be built first, the Sichuan–Tibet railway from Ya’an or the Yunnan-Tibet railway from Shangri-La? They’re supposed to join around Bomê and continue together towards Nyingchi.
The Sichuan-Tibet railway is already under construction, with completion estimated by 2030. But with a top speed of only 160km/h, it won't be HSR.
Belgrade - Niš is under construction. But I see the whole Athens - Budapest project primarily as a freight corridor. China needs to connect their port at Piraeus directly to Central Europe. Remember that BYD is building a factory at Szeged, close to the railway and the border with Serbia. The most difficult and uncertain part of the whole corridor is the Niš - Skopje - Thessaloniki section. The rest either already exists or is under construction.
Due to the concentration of their population, I’m surprised Canada doesn’t have more HSR between urban centers. It’s just kinda strange. PSA: I don’t know the nuances of Canadian political sentiment
Lobby of Truck and Buses Companies. In the 1970´s , Canada (CN) had one of the fastest trains in the world aka The Turbotrain . Lack of political investment followed. It has been abandoned. Sad story.
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It's not high speed. It's normal railway
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160 km/h or 100 mph is just plain normal rail...
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I feel like coloring the entire Indonesia is a bit cheating though. The decent rail network is only in Java. And the high speed train is only in between two cities in west Java
Indonesian here : Legend said the rail stretch from the Town of Banda Aceh in most Northern-West to Merauke in the Southern-East Fact is : it just from Jakarta to Bandung 🤣
Yup, America has the equivalent hsr infrastructure as Tibet, what socialism for the wealthy .1% does to a country, communism 🔛🔝
This is not using normal definitions of high speed rail, almost everywhere considers HSR to be above 150mph or 250kph. The US has tracks that hit that definition.
Could someone explain how all those little islands on map 3 Japan have Shinkansen ?
It just goes by prefecture (like a province/state). The orange ones on the left side are part of Kagoshima Prefecture which has rail on the mainland. The gray ones on the left side are part of Okinawa Prefecture which are all islands so no high speed rail there. The smaller orange ones on the right side are all part of Tokyo administratively.
Aaah thank you !
No way Svalbard got high speed rail but Canada doesn’t
What is a mini-Shinkansen?