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To: elmatador who wrote (131595)3/7/2017 12:49:23 AM
From: Elroy Jetson  Read Replies (1) of 218796
 
What China shares in common with Japan is their demographic of a rapidly aging population resulting from the one child policy. They're running a couple of decades behind Japan in when that age bubble hits, but China's demographics are going to be more extreme. They have interesting problems to be sure.

There's still infrastructure spending in Japan, including $80 billion for the Chuo Shinkansen magnetic levitation being built between Tokyo and Nagoya, and when that's finished extended to Osaka. People just aren't certain they'll live long enough to be able to take a ride on anything other than the short test track which they queue for.

The Tokyo-Osaka trip with 9 stations will take about an hour with a top speed so far of 373 mph - the same as the flight time. That's 2.5 times faster than the 143 mph Europe's conventional ICE trains travel at and double the 200 mph TGV speed.

Although SNCF did achieve a televised TGV run at 357 mph hour on the straight between Marseilles and Lyon using a convention TGV set push well past its sensible limits.

Of course here in America we still don't have collision avoidance implemented on our rail network. And just like Spain we have one "fast train" Acella which runs at 150 mph only over a 28 mile section of track.

The rest of the trip from Boston to Washington DC is on dilapidated rails unequipped for high speed, just like Spain's AVE from Madrid to Barcelona. Hey guys, the track is an essential part of the investment.
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