Why The US Has No High-Speed Rail
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- China has the world’s fastest and largest high-speed rail network - more than 19,000 miles, the vast majority of which was built in the past decade.
Japan’s bullet trains can reach nearly 200 miles per hour and date to the 1960s. They have moved more than 9 billion people without a single passenger causality. casualty
France began service of the high-speed TGV train in 1981 and the rest of Europe quickly followed.
But the U.S. has no true high-speed trains, aside from sections of Amtrak’s Acela line in the Northeast Corridor. The Acela can reach 150 mph for only 34 miles of its 457-mile span. Its average speed between New York and Boston is about 65 mph.
California’s high-speed rail system is under construction, but whether it will ever get completed as intended is uncertain.
Watch the video to see why the U.S. continues to fail with high-speed trains, and some companies that are trying to fix that.
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Why The US Has No High-Speed Rail
"the flatlands of Japan"???????? Look at the topological map of Japan, and tell me that it's flat. 90% of Japan is mountain. What a bunch excuses.
It still has an active volcano, which means that the geography is rather rugged. Def can't call Japan a flat land except the coastal regions.
Japan has no flatland except Osaka and Tokyo which is like 2% of its land.
Maybe they took a picture of a japanese road from 2m away
Research California's catastrophic failure at building HS Rail and tell me WHAT went wrong, OK?
And BTW, their test/development "stretch" through the CENTRAL Valley WAS pretty much nothing BUT Level!
THEY never got to HOW to pass through the SAN ANDRES Earthquake Fault that the train would have to cross, whether to do it 50+ Feet underground, or on the surface!
You had the original "Grapevine" route, then the later Route 58 path, where you would be over five stories UNDERground...
And people get nervous riding the RED Line on Metro Rail in LA!
Also Germany? The flatlands of Germany are poor farmers, the business (and 80% of the companies you know) are in a hilly and mountainous terrain that makes California look like landing strip.
The US is now completely incapable of building any large infrastructure project. Every project is ridiculously politicized and seen as a giant money grab bag that results in grossly inflated costs and endless delays.
I concur.
damn.. so similar to hk, but glad we pushed thru the rail, and other big infrastructure projects. so many oppositions.. wasting money blah blah bla..
@Sleepy BIden lmfao he hasn’t built a single infrastructure project that benefits all americans.
Land acquisition is the biggest obstacle in the US. Faster trains require straighter tracks. Property owners litigate to keep projects from moving forward. Not to mention stricter environmental laws than places like China, requiring tedious and costly environmental impact studies that can go nowhere due to corruption.
On top of that the US is a very large nation, and even at top speeds, trips would be discouragingly long compared to air travel. High speed rail is just not something people in the US want, it is only a vocal minority that desire it.
We are not a culture that embraces rail travel. And culture is something that needs to change organically, forcing it to change will encounter resistance.
The US is NOT Europe, The US is NOT Japan, the US is NOT China.
@@allisonwu3762 Eisenhower was the last President to do that. Don't just blame your favorite punching bag.
US: Japan didn't have to deal with mountains.
Japan: whole island is made up of mountains. Builds the shinkansen line to Nagano in the 1990s for the Winter Olympics in the JAPANESE ALPS.
*Holed up Japan's Hills and Mountains join the chat*
He was really ignorant for saying that.
🇯🇵💕
Dean Stephens yes and the tohoku Shinkansen in which that northern region is extremely mountainous
Yes, but Japan doesn't have to deal with earthquakes.
no, wait...
0:48: 🚄 The US lags behind in high-speed rail, but it could provide environmental benefits and alleviate congestion
4:08: 🚆 High-speed rail is gaining popularity in America, but the only true high-speed rail system under construction is in California, which is facing budget and construction challenges.
08:04: 💰 The primary reason why America is behind on high-speed rail is due to lack of funding and political will.
11:54: 🚆 Private companies and tech giants are investing in high-speed rail projects in the US, with some optimism for the future of train travel.
15:25: 🤔 It is unlikely for California to catch up with the world's quick deployment of projects due to various hindrances.
Recap by Tammy AI
I'll never forgive the US Car Companies who banded together to buy politicians to make sure they remain car centric and to never speak of rail systems. I'm 30 Years old, and never wanted a car, and never will drive one. I love cities with public transportation.
Good job, Tammy
@@makotonarukami7468 You clearly don't know what you are missing. You act as if cars are objectively bad options. They aren't. Public transportation has its benefits, but so do cars.
So you're saying the HSR of China and Japan are not real HSR?
@@baddriversofthenorcalarea500 Cars will have their benefits when they stop being so dangerous, I really dont feel comfortable driving in a crowded af city
USA: lets build a bullet train = no budget
USA: let’s go to war = no problem
LMAOOOO
Seems USA are hell bent on controlling regions that have oil, then hell bent on burning it, with no thought for future generations
Joe biden has already given other countries trillions of dollars in the past couple days and I'm taking the train at 45mph. jfc
Yayyyyee
yes - winning a war and keeping our country safe is more important than adding public transportation.
So basically, again in the history of America, a faster and much more efficient process was abandoned for slower and less efficient process because the money of large companies was more important
As an American I agree 100% with ur comment. Our government is corrupt to its core.
@@patriot-wf1er
Its so corrupt, that it has no intrest in building high speed railways. Their only intrest is to fight in the Republican vs democrat war, while chinece goverments wants high-speed railways, so thats why they are now in China. With the corruption and how US people nowdays behave I dont think US will get efficently a lot high speed railways through the whole country in bready long time.
Environmental laws are crazy. This is why it costs so much to build a project.
@@rickporvaznik5030 that also thanks to amarica
@@jout738 lol have you seen corruption in china, all they do is cut corners
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I am Japanese.
In Japan, 70% is occupied by mountains, and has a complicated topography. The Shinkansen also passes through many mountains. That is why the long nose of the Shinkansen was born. The long nose gradually reduces the air pressure by gradually increasing the surface area from the tip so that no explosion noise is generated when entering the tunnel at high speed.
Lets just say Americans aren’t the brightest
That's very interesting. Thx for the info!
I think a city and regional planning professor from Berkeley should not use words while explaining a project expenses " very expensive tunneling, passing through such areas etc. "specially for a TV program comparing it with Japan a country which its 70% are mountains. I believe (I want to believe) he knows that is not true.
spoilsport engineers! Tunnel explosions would be more fun and impactful! THE FUTURE HAS ARRIVED! :)
めだか太郎 , LOL. You’re funny! Your reasoning is false. That wasn’t the main reason why the Japanese high speed train has funny looking long nose. Correct answer is the how the tunnel was built. Back in early 1960s , the tunnels were built for a lower end of high speed which meant they were tight/narrow tunnels. As the speed increased to 300kph, many high speed train countries had to redesign with enlarged and shape of tunnel entrance and exit to reduce the air pressure. The Japanese train solution was to built/redesigned train with a long nose in the front and in the back
Whoever thinks the average Americans do not need high rail system please pay a trip to Japan, Taiwan, and China to first-handed experience the convenience of the mass transportation. Don't be shy of changing your opinion once you open your eyes.
Its communist products!!!! America is land of freedom!!!!!
I'm an American and served in the military. In the 90s I was in Tokyo and when I got back to the states I was ashamed of our current infrastructure. We are so far behind
Same thing I experienced after being in the military. The sad part is Americans still think we have the best of everything.
Americans have been told they have best of everything for politicsl reasons and that belief was there for very long time.
Well that was the 90s and things aren't that far behind now. But America should have invested in HSR DECADES ago
No one mentions the fact that our rail infastructure is geared toward freight transportation because of population density and the size of the US. Europe and Japan have many more ocean ports than the US has.
Mike W we do have the best of everything with the exception of rail but who needs trains anymore? It's not 1800 it's 2019 we don't need more rail in this country we need more Jesus (MILLENNIALS). Remember most countries are 3rd world countries (France) or second world countries (Australia). The U.S. And Canada are the 2 REAL first world nations on earth. Many lie and claim they are "first world" but you can tell they are liars by just using Google maps and looking around their cities and seeing that everything is ugly. This is why the U.S. Is the best because we are free and have all the best infrastructure besides rail and Canada is second because they are a ripoff US
USA: we are a car country
Japan: No problem, how many do you need?
If the USA went to trains in a big way, Toyota, Hondaa, BMW, Volkswagon, & a dozen other foreign car companies would go bust!
We are their biggest customer!
CAREFUL of what you wish for!
Poor usa, Because I like the wrx sti #Idontlikeford
@@leehansen4750 NO problem, they're all switching to make electric cars for the world's largest market - China. (That's the country mentioned in this documentary as also having the world's largest HS rail system)
USA: uhhhhh yes
@Justin Xie Don't get your point Justin, parking's a problem everywhere, no different in China. However, in most big cities parking in shopping centres is far cheaper than other countries. On the matter of cars made in China, I was pointing out that China is leading the world in building electric cars, not gas-guzzlers. Electric cars are the future, petrol cars - which countries like the US just can't let go of - are the past. Building a brand name and identity fame is very hard, China has to learn how to compete with big names, but it does with all the joint ventures it has with big branded companies; it takes time. What my reply above was trying to answer is that unlike the US, China is not so interested in (what you call) showing off, although they are saying we can own cars too...THEY are, electric ones. And they are not cheap in China- a hybrid Lexus can cost 1.7million rmb - far more than in the US. When China buys more Chinese made vehicles prices will fall. As for the trains - you know they're fantastic, and fly like a plane...
So many excuses.. High speed rail in Germany and France goes right through densly populated and mountainous regions.
Pim Scholten So many excuses*
All of those countries are more dense than America. We're so huge that only air and cars will work for all but the best paid urban workers.
And obviously those nations are doing poor with cars. Oh wait. No. Germany, Japan are producing more than the US and France is strongly in the top 10. Oh America.
@Skrooge Lantay lol.. america is not dense compared to china and even europe
USA has suburbia, which France, Germany and Japan don't have.
If you get off the high speed rail station, you will readily find local transportation to your home or your final destination easily in the major cities of Europe, China and Japan.
Not so in USA. for example, If you get off downtown Los Angeles train station, it will take 1 hour car ride to your home in Beverly Hills.
and there is no buses or metro between those two destination. you have to either hire a taxi or rent a car. meaning you were better off going by airplane at this point.
One major reason the US will never have a high speed rail system boils down to politics. In order to function efficiently, a high speed rail system has to be a point to point rail line, with few, if any, intermediate stops. This is because the trains achieve their efficiency thru long uninterrupted runs at high speed. A line from New York to Miami, to give an example, might stop in Philadelphia, and Washington, DC., and maybe one other stop. But politics being what it is, every representative, whose district the line passes thru, will not vote for the funding unless the high speed line includes a stop in HIS district. So a stop in every congressional district between New York and Miami will render the "high speed" train no faster than a conventional passenger train.
Express service is a thing
@@whoisthatkidd2212 the reps want the express service to stop at their stops
It doesn't help that automobile and airline industries have monopolies with firm control over people's choices in transportation.
saying japan and china can build easier because its flat there is BS. Japan bore through every mountain and China bridges over any body of water, meanwhile CA can't even complete a route through the flat valley
bored
Chinese basically build bridges over everything, even flat lands lol
@@cocutou government? You mean tax payers.
Ryko Kohne Japan is a small dense country. The U.S. Is a massive loosely sprawled country with cities being hundreds of miles apart and millions if not billions of acres of suburban sprawl
@@LucasFernandez-fk8se so the US is similar to China in that sense. Your point?
It's been drilled into American heads that using public transportation is low-class and only for the poor. When I fly to Europe, I never rent a car. Rail is boss. Once you ride the rails in Switzerland, your whole idea about rail travel will change! 🇨🇭
nah the Thalys TVG private rail from paris to amsterdam & amsterdam to paris only. fastest rail in europe @ 190mph and a really nice 1st class coach.
Not to mention every component in the automobile industry will fight tooth, and nail to quash any attempt to create a viable alternative to cars.
@@goofusmaximus1482 True. But cars won't disappear. We will still need them inside our cities.
@@dibujodecroquis1684 if there was a robust public transportation grid in the U.S., fewer people would use them as often as they do now. It is certainly possible a sizeable group of Americans would say goodbye to car ownership altogether, and rent them on an as needed basis.
@@goofusmaximus1482 They already did it with electric light rail in the 1950s - auto and tire companies convinced cities to scrap street cars. It all contributes to ugly urban sprawl.... 🏪🏢🏠🏣🏬
"Flat lands of japan"
ARE YOU JOKING?!
Look at a map and show me those flat lands, or maybe leave out Japan of that sentence, would it have been so hard to mention just 1 example?
As there's a mountain in the background.
Nagano is in the middle of the mountains and they literally dug a hole for the Shinkansen in there lol
Nina S the maglev line is under construction and they’re literally gonna bore through the southern Alps.
@@hamanakohamaneko7028 I totally forgot about that one! It‘s the Chūō Shinkansen you‘re talking about right? That‘ll be super awesome once it‘s done... probably also unaffordable for my poor self but one can dream. Maybe someone will finally pay me for the trip lol
Nina S My prefecture against the project because a river might dry. Maglev is cool, cheap water is also cool. For the price, it will be 800 yen or 8 dollars more expensive than the current Nozomi.
Blame the airline, automobile, and oil & natural gas companies' greed for our antiquated transportation system!
Exactly. High speed rail means we lose a bit of dependency on big oil.
They, don’t want that
Every problem in America starts off like “well some rich people felt like they weren’t making enough money”
Don't worry, they'll be burning in Hell in no time since like 70% of them are about as old as fossils anyway. :)
THIS
😂😂😂😂😂
@@GreatBigBallz I'm American...
@@jonathanhall5836 I don't know what's more ironic, the fact he said that America is less corrupt than every country in the world, or he said that to someone with the American flag as their PFP.
US : Our country isn't flat enough.
France and UK : Should we tell them we have rails under the sea ?
That’s submarine trains.
EUROSTAR! Love it, it's so amazing
Switzerland: should we tell them we have the longest and deepest tunnel? (57km (35-mile) 2.3 km below the surface of the mountains twin-bore Gotthard base tunnel, which cost $12bn and took 17years to build)
Just remind the French and the Germans why they haven't spoken Russian for the past 75 years.
And while your at it, remind the Japanese why they haven't spoken Chinese for the past 75 years.
You see, maybe if they would have been forced to spend their money on that....... They wouldn't have high speed rail. Or low cost health care. Or guaranteed government pension plans for life. Then again maybe they would have all just sat around, holding hands and singing kumbaya!
The South Koreans know why they're not ruled by a family of dictators.
@@rng8891 yeah ofc the usa saved the whole world from the evil communism thank you captain america now please pay your insulin 250$
No offense guys but as a German I felt like in a 3. world country, when I was taking a train from NY Penn Station to DC.
You felt that because it is.
not to mention the subway station in NY is extremely dirty.
Anthony Wong ugh they’re gross
yeah same feeling you are not alone
As a Chinese also have the same feeling in Germany, when I travel from Braunschweig to Munich, it takes 6 hours with ICE!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"Why The US Has No High-Speed Rail?"
Answer: Americans are freaking stubborn and want the "freedom" of driving and owning a car
A fully integrated high speed rail system that extended across the entire US would probably do wonders for the economy and job growth. Think about it...if you live in Houston but had the ability to travel to Dallas in 90 minutes, you suddenly aren’t confined to your small corner of the world.
That would be one of the biggest construction projects in world history though, the US is big and the geography on the west coast is very hard for high speed rail
@@nathanhaslam2798 sounds like it would make a lot of jobs
@@nathanhaslam2798 China is bigger and still can do it and Japan has a lot more geographical differences in terrane
Nathan Haslam why ??? Do just two. One on each coast. It would be a good start. US is falling behind civilized world...
Then you would have to take a cab or rent a car when you got there. Houston metro is huge. 10,062 square miles. That's about 100 miles by 100 miles. Dallas is way smaller in comparison, about 1/30th the size of Houston. The costs of building a rail system just in California are astronomical. It was estimated at $100 billion. And then there's cost overruns in government projects. As a rule of thumb in these type of ventures where land and environmental laws come into play, triple that. If we had slave labor like China, the cost would be less. Instead we have prevailing wage laws. I've worked on projects like that. The minimum I got paid in 2009 was $37/hr...depending on what I was doing. Some days it was $43/hr. And that wasn't a highly skilled job either. I'd been on the job for just over a year.
When I visited Europe I loved doing 300kmh/187mph on the trains there. Smooth, fast, safe, clean. Awesome. So much better than being stuck in traffic.
@Sylvain D Thank you Louis XIV. He said Europe, not France. Yes, it's fairly well known the French strike over just about anything.
Yeah visited , go live public transport day I’m and day out . I’ve done that I’m Sydney for four years and everyone hates it . Even Australians who are normally very upbeat talk trash about it .
@Poopy1234 for sure but still missing the part of who wants to ride public transport, I suppose those who like timetables and schedules . Also why do you need to work in SF but live in Anaheim. High speed rails also help spread disease faster because you can travel between geographic regions faster and faster and subvert quarantine rules and have exposure to more people.
@@Paul-vk6ed Compare rail to air-travel. If you can answer "yes, I want/need to travel by airplane" and the distance is less than 750 km (that's just over 450 US miles), then high speed train has the same characteristics of air travel (it is public transport, it has schedules, it spreads diseases and exposes you other people) BUT it is a better alternative, as it is often faster, more reliable, less dependent on the weather and environment friendlier. The 750 km radius is enough to connect many of the major cities on the east and the west coast of the US. If you build a real high-speed network like the Japanese or the Chinese, you can increase the radius to 900-1000 km.
Well, that place is China, not Europe.
“Flat lands of Japan” this guy clearly doesn’t know what he is talking about
Flat? Japan is mostly mountains.
My point exactly
That was my thought exactly. I'm from Ireland and I've traveled in Japan by train and it's tunnel bridge tunnel bridge constantly.
Hmm yes mountains are flat lands
Last time it was said in the street that Himalaya is kinda as flat as the Midwest in the States, and the Mount Everest is about the same as the pitcher mound of the baseball field. That's why Modi regime is about to launch a highspeed rail project right at the Mount Everest if he should win the election next time. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Took Chinese high speed rail Shanghai to Beijing and back, 860 miles.Took about 6 hours including two stops, Nanjing and Tianjin. They now have trains that do it in 4.5 hrs. These trains are wonderful. Big difference between China and U.S. other than style of government is that many Chinese officials were trained as engineers, while here we have a lot of lawyers.
Yeah, many Chinese leaders are graduates of Tsinghua University which President Xi is one of them. The irony is that Tsinghua Uni. is built by American money.
So true. Nobody has other disciplines anymore. Everyone in real estate, business, law. Nobody with STEAM skills is in enough power, nobody is bringing a different perspective.
If there was a HSR from Seattle to San Jose, I would never fly that route again.
As the number of American kids entering universities continues to decline, we will have fewer doctors, teachers and engineers. In China, as in Europe, a university education is free, if you qualify. In the US middle class kids leave with a debt between $80 and 100thousand dollars that will take most of their working lives to pay.
The medical schools, back in the 70’s were nearly impossible to get into. High GPAs, SATs and MedCats were not enough to get you in. The law schools were not as stringent. So bright kids either went into law, or some went to foreign medical schools. The result was too many lawyers and not enough doctors. It was a real mess. It’s s easier now but the problem is the expense. Also 20% fewer kids are even going to college and the enrollment is declining yearly.
the "flatlands of japan where they built the shinkansen"
Has this man been to Japan?
I have... I sure remember tons of tunnels but what do I know
Since tunnels are dug, the tracks are flat ;)
Mountains and forests ... Japan is 67% forest
I was wondering the exact same thing. If you keep to the coast, it's not as bad, but there are plenty of tunnels through mountains and other areas.
Lol, they do have flat lands too though. Japan is not a good example because its got the opposite situation of America: terrible, and prohibitively costly car infrastructure; but lots of trains. I think most Americans would take our traffic jams by a long shot if they tried riding on weekday morning Tokyo trains
We don't have "high speed" rail because we have "high speed" corruption.
We have LOADs of corruption here... the US is so behind in comparison to the rest of the world.
only in your third world dream world.
I can see your eyes are wide open. Too bad the others have their head in the clouds. Why work when you can con the government into giving you money.
@@joesphfontaine929 Rather it is the majority of the countries outside the U.S. which are more corrupt.
www.transparency.org/cpi2018
High speed rail is not needed in the US. If some state wants to go with it that is there decision.
And although the us car manufacturers practically eliminated all the "rivals" on the rails, the two biggest car companies are not Ford or General Motors, but Toyota from Japan and Volkswagen from Germany. What a sweet irony...
Toyota and Volkswagen benefited from Kawasaki and Siemens, and vice versa. Cars can bring people to places with no trains, trains can bring people to places where car is impractical.
Also, despite massive investment in rail network, China have the largest automotive market (in terms of demand).
When car parts and employees can be transported by train, cars become cheaper.
@@thefirstprimariscatosicari6870 Indeed, that is what made cheap German cars in European Union possible. The cars themselves are even delivered by train.
For clarification, German automakers do sell (somewhat) cheap models (BMW 1 series, Mercedes-Benz A-class, Audi A3, Opel Corsa, etc.). They are just not for sale in North America.
Exactly Hyundai which has both rail(Rotem) and road(Hyundai car) and also robot(Boston Dynamics). Hyundai is considered a midscale company in Korea as only IT companies such as Samsung and Nekaraku are considered chaebols.
Umm, GM and Ford no longer make gas cars, so they probably aren't going to beat Toyota or VW. However by reducing production to zero, they will be able to match Toyota build quality. How about an nice EV?
China will build our trains for us, in exchange all they want is our DARPA database , SSBN USS Columbia, CVN's Gerald Ford, Enterprise, and John F Kennedy, 15,000 metric tons of gold, and the State of Hawaii.
That's less than half of Amtrack's estimate. ;))
Why we don't? Because we are obsolete loosers. Coming from Asia trip Japan China, and S. Korea being my favorites with public transportation fascinating and the prices relatively cheap. Coming back to the USA was like going back 35 yrs. Really sad seeing Amtrak hahaha absolute pain to my eyes and our ego.
Here's the problem, plain and simple, politicians are elected by people, but they are lobbied by corporate America who cares more about profits than Americans.
free market is the solution, not the problem.
@@rockwithyou2006 not when the system is corrupt. Learn before speaking
@@OpiumBride You shold visit China, check out the freedoms that in the US you certainly don't have!
Vivian Lee there is no communism in China, only socialism. The market runs partially on capitalist model and is under scrutiny of the authority. As for policy making, the government works on meritocracy and centralised hierarchy. Communism is nothing more than a slogan.
The modern China has a governing style similar to that of Singapore, would you call Singapore a communist country?
@@zl4101 It suits the US to say Communism because it's afraid of people seeing how well China and its people are doing under their socialist system. US mentality is still (for many) back in the mind-set of the 1950s!
High speed rail? Hell some cities in the USA can't even get a light rail system lmao 😂 😂😂 😂
Every city in India with more 1 million population will have a metro system by 2024.
@@chawrakaxom559 that's awesome it's a shame the U.S won't do that LoL
@@slyatski that's very true as well maybe the bullet trains can deliver some clean water LoL
@@chawrakaxom559 how much money has your government received from the u.s. government?
@@chawrakaxom559 in the Philippines 🇵🇭 we have that since 1986
*“Flatlands of japan??!”* He has no idea what he’s talking about 😂😂😂. Japan is literally just mainly mountains
I think that we was saying that most of the railways are on the flatest part of Japan which is kinda true yet not entirely true. Same goes for France and Italy, some railways go trough the Alps.
Other nations have figured out the many benefits of high speed rail. Automobiles and airplanes are literally choking our economy, citizens and environment.
actually Islands. and theres flat lands there.
@@baptoufragilise roads and tunnels as well.
or Eastern China nonsense. Xi'An to Beijing goes through multiple tunnels Xi'an To Xining is 70% tunnels.
If Japan and China can build it, there is no reason for americans to not be able to, but they are just lazy irresponsible money sinkers.
i mostly work abroad, China, Germany France, Korea. Every time i come back to LA, take a taxi to H405...terrible... it seems stepping back in the 1950s.
americanstupid
America is literally in decline thanks to extreme capitalism.
Embarrassing infrastructure
coffeeinthemorning ah ah good one! Get your coffee !
Well, our politicians *do* want to make America Great "Again", but from the sound of things, "again" might be referring to the 19th century... maybe it will help revive the coal industry, lol. --> th-cam.com/video/tbuw1uHlp1M/w-d-xo.html
The "flatlands" of Japan had me dying hahahahahaahaha
IKR lol
so as China
and China
I think he means the real flatlands of Japan not the mountains but I get it
@@FlatEarthKiller brother over 80 percent of japan is mountains that s not an excuse
America: *$1 Trillion for a Military, no problem*
Also America: *$5 Billion for a supper fast train? No way*
*600 billion dollars and mostly to develop new military technologies because China keeps bootlegging ours and a super fast train system has no market in the US
And it wouldn’t cost 5 billion lmao
@@MalarkeyMan the bullet train will be better for us then a new tank that we do not ever need.
Reddit Stop lmao you say that now because we aren’t in a major war.
@@MalarkeyMan So far right now are military is way advance and is having more funds then the next 26 most funded militaries combined. Maybe we can put some of that budget in to our own wellbeing. Like better schools, high speed rails, better public trans and universal healthcare for most people. Not everything has to go to the military. Spread out our budget more.
Correct me if I'm wrong, Indonesia has already launch this kind high-speed railway, not only the first in Southeast Asia, but also the world's first among other southern hemisphere countries, named Whoosh!
And when Whoosh was opened, the Philippines in the other hand, neglected railways in focus in automobiles resulting on squatters 😊😊
US: We have no money for it!
Also US: spends hundreds of billions getting involved with foreign wars we don't need to
For all of those in the comments, I'm aware that the US needs to keep some people in line, but surely we can cut a little bit of spending without major issues. It's not like diverting some funds will suddenly make us vulnerable.
US is not China, in US is not possible to build cheap like in China, you have to pay much higher salary, you have to buy properties much more as in China where state just kick you out of the property. And at the end, Chinese bullet trains travel with about 10-20% covered, because tickets are just too expensive for average chinese worker who travel once in year back home and use slow trains where tickets are affordable...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxtorpeda
@Anshul Kaushik lol
@@manjelos Which China are you talking about? It's more than 1300 kilometers from Beijing to Shanghai. It only takes four and half hours and only 75 dollars. Everyone can afford it.
@Anshul Kaushik he is right. Only the Beijing shanghai route of the hsr is profitable in China. Rest are all subsidised. The chinese government owns all land. And they have just 1 normal train between Beijing and shanghai, so ppl have no choice. Their normal trains are jam packed where available.
“The flatlands of Japan.” What the heck was that guy talking about? There are no flatlands in Japan and I can promise you that, on the times I’ve ridden the Shinkansen up and down Japan, it goes through the mountains that make up more than 70 of the country.
Agree. The Us has more flatlands than Japan. I lived there for 3 years and tried shinkanzen.
There are many flat areas such as the Kantō Plain, the area where Tokyo and a few other prefectures sit.
It's when even reporters turn biased
@@user-mh2bw4hu3o even tho,china and japan are still far more mountainous than us
He is not capable of locating Japan on a globe.
Uh Japan is mostly mountains, and the Shinkansen has to go through them. It's by no means a flat country.
I was laughing when that guy said that.
@@gabrielmillien7439 Right!! It is unbelievably dumb and untrue. Just add this reality to the longlist of reasons why America is "Third World" country parading about as a "First World" country simply holding on barely with the invisible clothes of neo-liberal global stock markets and finance industry
Excuses 😂
Yeah clearly they never saw the line to Kyoto from Tokyo heh.
@@nicholasammon4790 You need to look up the definition of Third World and First world. What you said was dumb and untrue lmao.
No tunneling in Japan? Are you kidding me? Have you looked at a map? Sure, the first lines didn't have many tunnels, and were built almost solely on flatlands along the coast. After all, they are from the 60s and 70s, when tunneling was extremely expensive, not to mention slow. However, recent lines are very tunnel-heavy, travelling long stretches through mountains. The new line between Tokyo and Osaka is practically a metro, with 90% of the line being underground!
What an absolutely ridiculous thing to say.
They made tunnels under the sea connecting some of their main islands too.
F. OPE I took the train from tokyo to Hokkaido island. :-) it went under the sea
Check the Shinkansen tunnel between Honshu and Hokkaido... goes miles under the sea!
Seph this documentary is propaganda from CNBC, what do u expect
@@trutharmy6517 How the hell is this propaganda? It's just inaccurate, I don't see who benifits from it.
"Flatlands of Japan where they built the shinkansen"
Americans: Jeografi
Japan had flatlands on the coast like the Kanto Plain. You can not compare with US or european plain regions but it is flatland.
@@BlauesRauschen
Oh, so 1 edge of Japan has flatlands and that's the litmus example we should hold up for the US? Wow, liberals and their magical thinking, these news organizations probably serve Satan himself.
@@americanosbadassius9292
Then tell me your excuse why the US is too stupid to build railroad lines at the level of industrialized nations.
@@americanosbadassius9292 Republitards are so dumb & have so little faith in our great country that they think we can't have good public railroads even though CHINA has them & is a country as big as the USA.
@@rom7633
With our corrupt government and predatory corporations, any big project is a sham passed off to the American public.
I'm certainly open to great ideas that won't increase the debt or unduly burden the people.
The only thing really broken and outdated in this country is it’s government.
Outdated? I beg to differ. We are at the very forefront of media-driven mind control and social engineering.
X to doubt
@@sebastianfonseca6819 What about Germany? Germany is a Republic, was almost entirely destroyed after ww2, was then mislead for another 30 years and only reunited in 1989, that's just 30 years ago. Americans love to come up with the excuse that "they're just a young nation and for there age they already do better than other nations during that time" which makes no sense at all. Back then were different times, it's about right now. The US is the richest country in the world and yet other Nations that have less money surpass it in almost all criteria. Are you seriously trying to tell me that other nations have an advantage because they're older? How would that even work? LITERALLY, nothing is like it was 100 years ago. Any Nation that is older than 100 years is starting from scratch technically.
@@sebastianfonseca6819 For starter, the US is not a democracy and in fact the founding father where openly against the concept of democracy (because you know, people are too stupid to rule themselves...). It's a republic and nothing more (well actually with the lobby system that you have there it's closer to an oligarchy but whatever).
Second, yes it's one of the newest government, and from an economical standpoint the country is successful. Bbut keep in mind that the US has plenty of valuable resources and a humongous fertile territory. It was created by the most dominant culture in the world at the time, so from the begining the US knew how to do well on the international stage. Since it's inception the country has played on easy mode, and when Europe decided to commit suicide during WW2 it just naturally became the most powerful country in the world. Now if you look at the state of education, healthcare, rate of poverty etc, you will find out that the US is FAR from being a good country. It's only one if you are rich which is not the case of the vast majority of ppl...
Our govt. is one of the youngest govts. in the world and I still believe strongly in the American Experiment. The govt. is not broken per se; the real problem is with the kind of people attracted to govt.
I once took the high speed from London to Paris. The ticket was 200 lbs, but the ticket seller asked me if I was over 65-yes- so they only charged me 90 lbs! 200 miles an hour. I put a glass of water on the table and nothing shook- it was completely still. There was no sound. After an hour I debarked the Gare du Nord in the heart of Paris. LOVED IT! I could ride high speed forever
I am retired, and if we had what Europe has I would get up in the morning and say "Oh I'm going to San Francisco today" and have a tranquil happy trip. All you need is a ticket-they take care of everything else.
90lbs! That's a heavy train ticket.
It's £ not lbs my friend :)
In France we have now a low cost TGV called "Ouigo", the tickets starting at 10€ for the same speed and smoothness as the normal TGV.
I am also retired. I regularly get up in the morning and say "Oh I'm going to San Francisco today". That's what I love about living in Oakland.
China’s high speed rail is most advanced. Sadly American politics will bar that from allowing China to build it. China could build more high speed rail than the entire earth could in 10 years.
@7:20 did the expert just say it’s flat land in Japan and they haven’t dug too many tunnel!
Dude have you even used the Shinkansen once?
They have tunnelled through mountains to keep the track straight!
@Nezumi Speed jeez, generalize much? Just because this guy made a faux pas, it doesn't mean the whole country is ignorant.
(BTW I'm not American)
@@Pedro-tm6ue As an American, most Americans are ignorant. This news media constantly make ignorant statements.
@Nezumi Speed do not include California in that statement. We get thousands of people coming here for education/jobs. Generalization does not work.
@Nezumi Speed LOL "Americans". Hope you know that America is a continent, and American means people who are living in the continent of America
@@stanley19430 All I was trying to say is not to take an isolated thing and turn it into a country wide problem. I'm not saying that what the guy said couldn't be true but I couldn't really say for myself.
Something no one wants to admit, in America, there are a lot of DEATHS that go with driving cars.
That's because we have poor standards when granting driver's licenses.
Oh we know, we just don't care lol. We do it so much because we have to, and thus we perceive as less risky
Mhm
Ban prius drivers.
@@stratosphere2323 But hey! At least you get to die in your own car! And not a commie train you have to share with people /s
My answer: Because a high speed train cannot be used as an weapon.
Best answer
The man said that the lands of Japan and China were flat lands. At the same time, a large percentage of land in Japan is mountainous. Moreover, China has recently built a railline on the roof of the world in which 90% of the line goes through tunnels and viaducts.
Yeah, Spain has got the second largest high-speed train system despite it being the third most mountainous European country.
Japan is literally tunneling through a massive mountain range just to save an hour from tokyo to osaka, a route which is already 2.5 hours thanks to high speed rail
I think he said that the spot they began building in Japan was mainly flat land.Not the entire country.Obviously China is far from flat with the mountains and huge gorges everywhere,lol.
Yes , 70% of China and Japan's land is mountainous
Losers tend to find execuses for failures.
USA: "Oh we don't have money to build trains"
USA: "...we spend more than $600 BILLION every year on military".
They use it on RailGun (the US' pride)
When a slug can go faster than a human
It's a lot more than that.
One fraud investigation in the armed services found an annual discrepancy in the US Army alone that was greater than the official annual national military budget
Its been reliably estimated that the USA military spend is upwards of $3 TRILLION per year - and this as a percentage of GDP is far higher than the levels that bankrupted the USSR
Eisenhower warned about this in the 1960s but the military tail is well and truly wagging the dog now - history shows this situation _NEVER_ ends well
@@miscbits6399 USA will fall apart, 21st century belongs to China. There is no surprise to this tale. It is not a matter of 'if', it is a matter of 'when'.
Pen Muni Yes protecting dead beat places like Japan, EU, Philippines, South Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan etc.send the bill to these nations, pay in 30 days or your on your own. Don’t call us again to protect and save your nation.
And the electricity to power the high speed trains will come from either coal or nuclear plants both bad for the environment and future since the nuclear wast will take hundred's to thousands of years to decade. And for solar power deforest and clear out land to build them.
WTF!
Some of the Shinkansen lines in Japan go through mountain areas and need a lot of tunnels. Nothing about the flatlands he talks about.
A considerable portion of the line Tokyo-Osaka runs in tunnels.
And the line going underwater to Hokkaido...
Yep the longest undersea tunnel in the world an enginering masterpiece in a very seismic active !area
Like the video says blame the car/avaition companies and the politicians
They're clueless
Just understand that many of these people in this video are straight up liars
Just love Japanese railway system.
Taking a long haul trip from Tokyo to Osaka, takes around 3:30 hours. That will be 12 by car.
And trains depart every 10 minutes. It seems more like commuting rather than long haul journeys.
America would rather have you sit in traffic for hours in a city instead of a train that doesn't stop moving
Bring back trains. I’m tired of traffic and paying for insurance and car bills.
Did you not hear the part were they sounded envious that the Chinese government controls most of the land, or how they have less strict labor laws? I swear, some of these politicians are not even trying to hide the fact that they want to become a socialist country. Not surprisingly they are from California, which has a one party system.
@@AthenaGateI really was just focusing on more affordable transportation. However, the politicians are the problem. Because of them getting paid to prevent new industry from competing with their lobbyist friends, we progress at a snail speed.
High speed rail would be so much more efficient and useful and so many people would use it. The only reason auto is the main choice right now is because people have no other choice. AND ITS NOTHING TO DO WITH CHINA. NOT EVERYTHING IS TO DO WITH CHINA
@@gooser__43 that’s why someone needs to change these rules. And that’s why private companies like space x have made so much more advancements in so little time with so much less money. Politics is the problem, politicians only look out for themselves.
@@gooser__43 actually people would much prefer rail travel if it was an option bypassing 4 hour traffic jams. Rail makes travel much more efficient and cheaper in the long run
US spent 700 billion dollars every year in defense but suddenly High speed train are too expensive?
They are not necessary in America.
Unfortunately high speed trains are money pits year after year. Adding them onto the multiple industries needing constant subsidies to exist becomes a problem. Corruption, graft, and bureaucracy are a major problem too. Announce a big govt project and multiple layers of contractors already have their plans to skim money away. This will only increase in a politically polarized nation where trust is fading.
alternative title for this video: watch Americans make excuses for having no high-speed rail (other than spending trillions in wars and not infrastructure)
Ikr why do we need so mucb military funding
@@alexn1168 to keep global commerce from breaking down tbh lol.
There are plenty of perfectly valid reasons why low density countries like the US, Canada and Australia don’t have high speed rail, but I see you have chosen to ignore them.
Military funding. Trust me you are lucky ur in the US they dont always focus on military there is a reason you guys have the largest economy and have a hdi if 920. You need to come to india, here the government is corrupt and never cares about the quality of life they just care about making nukes and improving military that's why our country is so bad full of slums and homelessness
true!
dallas to houston in an hour. Just imagine
A high speed rail system would help people living in poor areas with limited resources to obtain better jobs and gain financial opportunities currently unavailable to them due to limited transportation.
but do the rich make more money with it
@@F1iqpy Indirectly, through improved productivity. Rich tend to be very impatient in their profits.
mii indirectly due to increased productivity of employees. it directly loses billions for the first few years but ones everyone gets used to it n starts using it then it will make money back because of the amount of people paying to use it n could be used for generations to come. at some point though, maglev rails will be needed so that continued upgrades n cleaning every year that stops the train service for 1week to 1month every year will not be needed
@@F1iqpy It should be public owned with cost controls.
And that's the problem. The rich people want to keep them poor and stuck in their minimum wage job so they're beholden to their masters.
"Freedom on wheels"
Say that to a NY cop when you get pulled over for 50% window tint when you're just going to work.
I like it. 👍🏼
@@cameronf3343 that law is obnoxious. Why is my sedan not allowed to have any but SUVs are? Another rushed, idiotic law by Governor Cuomo
Because we have a strong lobby against it. That’s why we don’t have them, has nothing to do with not having the money.
J Calhoun not sure what you are talking about but here in the northeast we would absolutely love to have a bullet train. Sorry the Acela Express doesn’t cut it and it shouldn’t take 6 hours by train to get from Boston to DC. Sorry but trains aren’t obsolete, something tells me you are from the Midwest or the south and see things very differently than someone who is actually from the city where wages are higher and the population is more dense.
@@numbhalo4901 Unfortunately it will not be government funded under Republicans fossil fuel lobbyist.
Up!
@@drepark2294 , dude not everyone from the Midwest is a yokel. I live near Chicago and would love a bullet train system for travel. I hate driving long distances and my wife is deathly afraid of flying. It'd be a win-win for us
Mr.Infumus lol living near Chicago is different, that’s a major city and already leverages trains for daily transportation for its residents.
I really enjoyed the Auto train from DC to Florida. More such railroad should be built. Much waited Houston to Dallas line.
Let me tell u what your problem is America.
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*LOBBYING*
Everything is wrong with America! Its a shithole controlling the good people by lies and corruption.
Lobbying = Legallized bribery. Makes me sick
OLIGARCHY
Also some people walk into tracks. Also, safety measures are not perfect for trains with countless collisions. So U.S. might be far from a true high-speed rail system.
pendiemz No, it’s the size of America that makes bullet trains almost impossible. Public transportation can work in big cities, but that’s it.
Take a random state like Louisiana, where’s a bullet train supposed to go? From one town to the next? They’re only a short drive by car and the gas price is cheap, so it’s not worth the price of a ticket or the time it takes to travel into town for the train. Even then, how many people are gonna use it? Maybe a couple dozen?
The U.S is becoming a living time capsule. We are supposed to be innovative but lag in basic transportation options. It's almost 2020 and we don't have an high speed rail system smh. U.S is way too corrupt!
It's not corruption that delays and prevents rail, it is regulation: environmental, liability, labor costs, and other restrictive regulations. There are more things saying "No" to development, any development, than "yes" these days. Personally, I'd love to visit nearby cities more regularly, and by train, if it were possible and cost effective. At present, it is neither.
And we don't have a significant enough of a reason. Unless you're in a large city like Miami, NY, etc; there's no needs. The roads are expansive and gasoline is cheap. Just the other day I paid $2.15 per gallon. Obviously gasoline fluctuates but the point is the same gas pressure that Europe faces doesn't exist in the US. And with so many roads and cars, the public transportation system is pretty hit and miss or generally poor depending on where you live. Plus all the reasons they stated. It's extremely expensive and overly complicated. So many of these countries had these rail lines established before the roads so it was easy for them to make a straight away rail. It's a lot harder and more expensive to try to do so once so much is in the way. And then back to the original question. Why bother when everyone is already driving a car?
Don't forget our dinosaur internet speeds!
I think the US is still incredibly innovative. The problem isn't about technology. The US society just doesn't warm up to innovations fast enough.
I'll bet anyone commenting could come up with a list of things they'd like to see implemented/fixed: Education System, Healthcare System, Homelessness, Security, etc. Make a list. Budgets (limited resources) force you to prioritize that list. How far down that list is high speed rail? Assuming that resources are limited (I know it's hard for some..but look to your own wallet...you have to make spending decisions...I personally would like to own a Lamborghini but...) at some point a cutoff point has to be reached. A critical decision factor is: are there available alternatives to spending. We have those alternatives.
It also doesn't help that we add new costly needs to the list daily. It's all about Choices. Regardless of your political leanings it's about choices.
I take the local electric train, the Metro, 50 miles across LA right now, when I need to go.. It's faster than driving. It's far less stressful. And it is a lot cheaper, and I have a car that gets 30-40+ mpg. Or less in stop and go driving, which is pretty much the way it is now, from almost sun up to sun down. I'm never alone on the train, there are a lot of people taking it. I've ridden the train from LA to SF. Of course it's ridding on buses over half the way there and takes longer than driving. Cheaper though.
"the flatlands of Japan" ??? What? I live in Tohoku and much of Japan is mountains. Riding the shinkansen from sendai to Tokyo has many, many tunnels. This ain't no flatland. Lol
destroying mountains!! where are the green deal people with that
Don't worry, as many americans (and this is just a sad fact, not an insult) he probably cannot show where Japan on a map is , just as they (can't) do with every countries wich are far from there almighty America.
This nation has serious issues they need to solve.
@@supernannoe44 You have to be really ignorant to confuse "destroying mountains" with making tunnels. LOL
Ha, ha. I wondered if he's ever been to Japan.
@ that our government causes
7:15 Did that gentleman really insinuate that the Shinkansen was built across "flat lands"? Has he been to Japan??
I believe he was referring to China.
I don't think so. He's just not willing to admit that the Japanese are more efficient than the US which is also why one segment hasn't cost them $77 billion
@@tomoyamaguchi5756 actually the first line, Tokaido Shinkansen, had cost overruns double its initial budget, which caused the government to reallocate funds from other projects at the time, including the Tokyo Monorail, which is why the monorail ends at Hamamatsucho (a less convenient station) and not at the originally-planned Shimbashi or Tokyo Station. The only difference is, there was political will at the time to prioritize the Shinkansen because of the upcoming 1964 Olympics. The initial problems paid off however, as the line is now heavily used.
Maybe he was a hired narrator just looking at the video footage and a few bullet points on a napkin
@@zacharywho5442 so if the map on this napkin is accurate, Japan is actually completely flat, and rectangular!
US: we dont have enough money
Also US: spends 600 billion on milliary a year and fights pointless wars.
Lies. We USED to spend 600 billion...now its gonna be 700 billion! Checkmate, Libtard! Facts dont care about ur feelings! MAGA!
Eh, it's a bit more understandable if you look into it. It is 3% of the GDP and the main reason for a lot of the high costs is the maintenance of military bases across the world. If the US were to try to lower that amount it would have to be slowly while making sure that Allies can sustain themselves militarily
US did not improve their own country , they use taxpayer money to go war for resources and killing so many innocent peoples, dominated the world, why US is evil country in the world, and also always said human right democracy, big liar
@@alvinyg3914 You really don't have to bring your Quora nationalism down to TH-cam.
And over two thousand billion on healthcare and other entitlements. We need cuts all across the board.
This kinda funny the country like USA no has a bullet train
Here is a easy way: study from AT&T, just call anything faster than 60 miles per hour a "High Speed" and there you go, High-Speed Rail in America.
You are welcome USA.
Thats what this vid is pretty much doing when referring to cali's "high speed" rail. Its not actually high speed.
That means India has a lot of high speed railways
There you go. 5G Evolution/5G E. Not a real 5G. But it sounds cutting edge and fast.
That ain't saying much considering the vast majority of the common carrier railroad network out side of the Northeast Corridor is restricted to 79 MPH by federal regulation even though much of that trackage can easily support speeds far greater then that.
Technically, they are correct. They are going by the old UK standard set by the former nationalised British Railways, who got most services running to "a mile a minute" - 60mph. The world followed suit on that standard, therefore anything faster could technically be called high speed.
However, BR set that standard in the 1960s, and trains have improved since.
But another problem is infrastructure. Here in the UK we are trying to run 21st century trains on a network largely built in the 1840s, so getting above 60mph is rarely possible. Hell, here in Scotland we have lines where trains are restricted to 25mph for many miles.
When the USA stops acting like the world’s policeman and pulls a portion of its 665$ billion dollars of military spending, these infrastructure projects wouldn’t be as difficult financially. 🙄
no, no, USA being the world's police is great, that way my country doesn't have to spend so much on it.
The national highway system was sold as a military expense for logistics of moving the military efficiently aroud the country. On most of it you can easily move thanks and heavy equipment. Even military aircraft can land on the interstate highways.
Being the policemen in the world has paid huge dividends to our economy with out wars commerce has flourished. If you believe that crap the world doesnt need a policeman I would like to see what would happen if your city stopped having police. KAOS
Dont be an idiot
@@mardismardias2373 Arrête d'être endoctriné, alors oui les USA ça fait rêver grâce aux films/séries que l'on peut voir et leur vision des grandeurs, mais en vrai je préfère largement vivre en France quand tu vois les problèmes qu'ils ont.
Tyler T The United States' military has contributed to the success of America. We have a hand in nearly every conflict in the world and exert great influence from it. When world tragedy strikes, people look to America first to utilize our military. Someone has to do it, will you take over instead?
@@Bobo-jy5mg Thank you so much. Other first world countries prefer using their money on free education, free health care, few or no homeless etc.
because of corruption and lobbying
and the cheap ass feds not paying for it but instead pay for israel and their wars
Finally someone say it 👏👏👏👏
My city spent $75,000 installing a slide and a two other apparatus on a playground. The project took two months to finish. Original bid was $10,000. I walk by the park once in a while and never see any kids playing in it.
With a Harvard or Stanford diploma!!
@Hasta Manana
So are fixed houses right ?
Hsppy to know every citizen owning estates are fascist :)
Because the oil/gas industry and domestic airlines would loose money, and they will try their hardest to not let that happen.
7:20 he say china didnt face any tunneling lmao. I think he should visit china and take a railway route and enjoy the 20+miles tunnel length in some places himself
China just takes the land, pays nothing, builds with no care for the environment, and owns all the money so.... yeah... right compare that yeah? fool...
@@mattlane2282 spotted one idiot here, anyone agree?
Matt Lane The train is not profiting tho and the tickets are set at incredibly cheap prices, the goal is to make them affordable for all Chinese citizens
@@nagi-springfield93 I mean he ain't exactly wrong. If they want land, they will make the person move and relocate, there probably is compensation but not a lot. I mean these are the same people that are doing a social credit system? Which in it's own right is ridiculous. I wouldn't be surprised if they don't care about the environment either.
@@MrStone125 those relocate's citizen normally will earn lots of cash and new house for them by selling their land. A better living standard waiting for them instead of living in a place where u can only travel by foot. You got no idea how many people actually wan their land to get occupied by the government
I have been on China's high speed trains many times. It is absolutely incredible. The trains are clean and comfortable. The stations are clean modern. AND they run efficiently and on time. It cannot be beat.
I have been on them a couple of times. The trains were crowded, there wasn't enough space to stow luggage and people were smoking near the doors at every opportunity. The train rides were boring as hell, getting on and off the trains in mega stations the size of large international airports was stressful and the cab rides to and from the train stations were the worst. The experience of going at 270km/h wears off very quickly for those who are used to going at 700km/h in a plane. My small local airport is a much more pleasant experience and it connects me reliably to a large one that has international flights to everywhere.
@Lepi Doptera loser always feels uncomfortable, haha
@@tt3941 You can have all the attention you need, kid. Just ask for it. :-)
They will fall apart in three years like everything else built in China. Overpasses are constantly falling down in China as well as buildings. Really shoddy workmanship in China, they just don't care.
@@lepidoptera9337 amazing story you made . Amazing:) hopefully you will live with your wet dreams, never wake up:)
I had a colleague who worked in Beijing and lived in Tianjin, another city about 110km away. He took a bullet train before and after work every day. It cost less 10 dollars and 50 minutes, which is actually about the same as traveling from one end of Beijing to another by car on regular traffic.
does it stop at any time?
I know a few people who commute from Manchester to London every day. It's a 2 hour trip each way and stops a few times along the route but not usually more than 4-5. It isn't even really classed as high speed, it's just a regular fast service. It's like £20 or so each way if you get a season ticket. It's not super cheap, it all adds up, but the people who do these kind of commutes make a lot more working in London than they do outside of the capital so it more than makes up for it.
@@archmad High speed trains can stop every hour, carrying 2000 ppl per train and dividing into two separate trains at the middle of the way.
@@aabb-zz9uw then no
@@archmad You realize that the high speed train isn’t an enemy to cars it’s an alternative. You can have both. Except rail is more efficient in carrying more people for short to medium distances.
A car can drop you where you want but it can’t go 200 mph. High speed rail would allow you live in the country or smaller city and work in the downtown without the cost of living in Downtown NYC, Dallas, Atlanta. Therefore you save money from cost of living.
Honestly, I'd donate a few dollars towards a public high-speed rail project.
In Switzerland is the longest tunnel of the world - and it goes through the alps.
I watched the opening ceremony for that. Very satanic.
The tunnel is essential to all Swiss people, but the high speed train is not so much for all AMERICAN.
And, America has in place alternatives for HSR
@@danielwong5099ah yes destory something of beauty when something else is essential. What destructive thinking.
Whoops
Kenya has the slowest train system from China, and it's faster than US.
Wayne T and much nicer compared with china regular train system . That train in Kenya is very comfortable
China with their neo-colonialism! Their taking advantage of Kenyans by making sure that they pay less to international oil companies!
@@aoeu256 Kenya's "high speed" rail is 300 miles long, has 9 stops and goes 75 miles per hour. I'm sorry, but that doesn't really qualify. Michigan alone has 232 miles of track where the train goes up to 110 mph which is even questionable as "high speed" but far faster than Kenya's. Let's not forget the Acela Express from Boston to DC, which is over 450 miles long with speeds of up to 150 miles per hour, and 4 more around the east coast that are far closer to being "real" high speed rail than Kenya's.
I'm happy they have transportation, but don't believe that Kenya's passenger rail is truly high speed, or that they're far ahead of the US.
@@gmscott9319 so this is what america has come to... From being the best in the world at almost everything in the 1950s to "technically this developing country is a tiny bit worse than this one place in michigan"
Soff1859 When it comes to passenger rail yes, because it is practically useless and pretty much impossible in most parts of the country
US :- This High speed rail network project is very costly
Also US:- Investing millions and Billions of dollars for buying useless weapons and wars in other countries.
It's only expensive due to under bidding to win contracts because there's reward for ahead of schedule and under budget. Worse they don't fine for cost over run and delays.
"guys look i made this cool new STEALTH BOAT look its right over here see?" "yeah looks kinda dumb lol" "wait you can see it... oh"
Non-US countries: "How come we have the money for this and the US doesn't?"
Also non-US countries: dump all their military bills on the US and refuse to pay their promised share for NATO.
Look at this guy in the last response here. He is literally showing the exact problem with the US. They think their perfect and nobody has better ideas.
"Also non-US countries: dump all their military bills on the US and refuse to pay their promised share for NATO."
Car ownership has been a financial drag against the lower middle class and the middle class,.
America cannot build enough highways to meet the interest structure demand it just isn't fiscal y possible
Because CJ can't follow the damn train if it's that fast
That's the correct answer lol
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Lmao so true
2nd time seeing this comment on a rail video
Short Answer: Rich lobbies in the pockets of America's politicians. You're welcome.
The other way around.
Americans dont want to spend $9 for a gallon of gas like Europeans do to subsidize rail and public transit. It's not the politicans or lobbyists, it's the people.
The tree huggers have the perspective of ::: when or if the pipeline fails due to erosion from flash floods, wildfire, earthquake, cold and hot extremes in weather, terrorist motivated radical activity,
...one begins to wonder if they do, in fact, have a position to complain.
first: it’s the other way around; politicians in the pockets of lobbies. secondly another big factor is that we simply don’t focus on our infrastructure. luckily we passed a 3 trillion dollar infrastructure bill but I think it’s time we stop spending so much on war and start spending more here at home
@hax0rman1337 Nonsense. Ecologically-minded people want public transport and rail. Equating a pipeline with public transport is false comparison.
I think California tried high-speed rail and never finished it.
Flatlands of Japan? It’s one giant mountain range. If they managed to find space for trains, anybody can
A quote I once heard, "Japan doesn't 'have' mountains....Japan IS mountains!"
its just knowing how to invest
Japan does have some flatlands.
DrJams it does and there is a Shinkansen line running through them but there’s also Shinkansen running all over the rest of the country. They use the flat land they can find and then figure out the solution everywhere else
didnt most americans think the world is flat? lol
I would like a third option when I'm traveling & I'm sick of getting screwed by the Airlines.
Frank you’d still get screwed by the railroad, track maintenance costs would be the excuse to increased prices, nickel and diming would be inevitable. We have to turn everything into a circus, and these are the same folks that would charge you a convenience fee at a lemonade stand on the corner.
@@billglaser…….. Now you know why China is the next super power, they get things done with out the lobbying.
Trump instead of blaming the rest of the world, he now can blame his own people.
@@Eric-ye5yz Thanks for the input comrade. I know I'm sick of private property the state should own everything.
@@Eric-ye5yz They get things done by imposing their will on the citizenry and jailing or executing anyone that gets in their way. Since there is no private property in China, if they want your house they take it. They put things where they want and follow no environmental regulations. Fill in a swamp, cut through a mountain, build across a migratory route, clear cut a forest, no big deal.
If you took away private property rights and all environmental regulations the US could get things done as quickly, and if unions were illegal and you could use prisoner labor, even cheaper.
However that's not a country I would want to live in, just as I would never want to live in China.
@@VideoArchiveGuy….. Do you know this for a fact ? You do know the American government is capable of false information don't you?
There was a time I believed everything I was told too, but I learnt how deceitful and dominating America can be …. think central and South America?
You are writing as if America has a clean slate and it doesn't.
Excuses excuses excuses.
That's why train transportation hasn't worked.
It a shame that America isn't pioneering one large scale project since 90s. They are simply basking under the glory or tech boom.
You are so stupid, you think America is always going to pioneer ... Sad.... I think other countries should invest in their future the way Americans in the past invest our future ... America is money motivated, not motivated by pioneering
This country is brainwashed. All we have to show are altra rich people and war machines.
@@ironwall4889 do you really think that is all we have 😂
Capitalism comes at its cost
As a consequence, the USA is the pioneer for all autopilot car tech.
America wasted 3 trillion dollars in Iraq war. And now there is no enough money to fund the critical projects. What an irony!!!
It's crazy how much power lobbying has in America. It literally can halt development and progress here, even if it will benefit the whole of the country.
Airplanes go 600 MPH that's why the airplane was invented Hello.
TWO CENTS ARMY if you factor in the amount of time needed to go through check-in, waiting for the plane, immigration if travelling international, taxiing times, a journey between Anaheim and San Francisco would probably take as long in a plane as in a high-speed train. Not to mention, you can build train stations far closer to city centres than you can build airports, again saving transit times from door to door. Also, rail travel is a lot cheaper than flying which will benefit much of the working-middle class.
@@Warbaby_ Shhhh, that's too logical.
@@proudtobewhiteprivileged9530 Trains are a lot more safer than airplanes that can fall out of the sky.
@@Warbaby_
19 of the 20 high speed rail lines are losing money in China
Most of them can't even make enough to pay for the interest from the loan
Need high speed rail from Los angeles to Las Vegas....that would make bookoo bucks
Have a casino car that opens once the train crosses the border LOL!
Phoenix to LA
Ed Gbur that would be nice! 💯
The traffic between Vegas and socal on a Friday and Sunday is nuts. It once took me 6 hours to get to Vegas with a few wrecks and construction closures....its only 250 miles
Someone should do it. And then use the profits to fund other lines.
Even a "poor" country like Spain, the second most mountainus land in Europe has the biggest high speed rail network in that continent and the third in the world. And USA?
EU financed construction of Spanish high speed trains and now, Spain is not even able to handle cost of maintaining it. How about that?
Ok. It is thrue. Spain has recieved, specifically, for the AVE, the high speed spanish rail till 2017, 11200 millions of euros. About el 20% of the total cost. Nothing in the last years. They don't have any problem in paying anything. Even they are doing more lines.
Spain is a poor country? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 It's the 12th biggest economy in the world and in many aspects, way more developed and modern than the US
@@waltersobchak517 where did you get that BS. The AVE costs currently are greater than the revenues. But any business venture with high capital costs will lose money always in the first few years. The fact is that public accounting is far different than private. In the long run it is an investment in the country. As industry and the population shift to the optimize the use of the rail system. Population centers will shift to lower land cost not around Madrid and Barcelona. Tourism will be more efficient. The AVE was not built for today but 20 years from now when it will change the economics of the country.
Yhis is the problem with the USA we continue to prop up short sighted solution that in the long run are far more detrimental to our environment and health.
Carmen Ramírez I wouldn’t consider Spain a “poor” country. Although there is no reason for Spain to have it and not the US.
I love how they kind of complain about not having money but yet we are supposed to be the most wealthy country
In overall gdp yes but per capita not even close
Why don't we have high speed rail? We are the United Corporations of America.
Because the oil and auto industry would sooner everyone buy a car and fill it with gas everyday..Some corporations gets screwed by others...
exactly Corporations corruption
You know that the entire Japanese rail system is fully privatised, yes?
progressing because the us is much larger, has a lower population density, and has suburban and city sprawl, making HSR difficult to build and make economical. But we are building lines rn in Texas and California
@@marr1379 Reason being car companies in Japan don't have anywhere near the amount on influence as in say America, love it or hate it America takes care of its Corporations sometimes perhaps a little too much. Example, what the video described earlier where automobile companies practically crippled rail transport to make way for more roads, despite rail transport not being bad at all at the time. I doubt we will see any improvement to America's railway system until either a massive company like Google or Amazon decides it wants to make it so. Unlike in Japan where Private companies getting funding to build this rails was fairly easy compared to America where most car companies will probably just lobby against you getting that project off the ground if you try funding it federally.
07:30 Japan didn't have to drill through mountains to build tracks like California is??
YEAH RIGHT!
The Japanese pioneered modern tunnel boring through mountains for building track lines!
Come to CA and fix our train man, you got all the answers!
Dem Jerry Brown gave up, Dem Newsome seems about the same, come here, bring your vast knowledge lets get something out of the $Billions already wasted ah I mean spent....
You obviously know better then our locals...
@@jeffschlarb4965 your patriotic pride got hurt when your bubble bursted lad?
@@jeffschlarb4965 Mate, Japan is like, 90% mountains, and major population centers are on opposite sides of the main island.
hokkaido shinkansen extension is 76% tunnel lol
@@jeffschlarb4965 The US is a too big country. Okay, let's make a HS in the Vatican.
Because technological progress in America is less important than corporations manufacturing cars and planes
We should ship people via Amazon. Much quicker.
2 days in a box...hmm...could be cheap, I'd probably try it.
Happy Prime day
David a thermos of coffee and a few honey buns, and you’re ready to ship!
That would still use an automobile
I’m down
#1 reason for high cost is due to politicians filling their pockets first. Sad.
Very true
Cough cough california high speed cough
Numero uno, filling the pockets and taking money from education, don't worry karma,
Gilded Age time
@@JOHNDANIEL1 wow you sound unintelligent
Oil, auto, real estate, and insurance companies are all gang up on California High-Speed Rail Project.
China builds 1900 miles of railway a year.
California takes 10 years to build 500 miles.
Go figure.
It's like you didn't hear a thing he said. China has horrible labor, and property laws. They abuse their citizens to an extreme degree compared to any western nation.......ffs
slave labor IS efficient I'll grant you!
@@ronschlorff7089 Maybe not that efficient, but certainly cheap!! I saw a trench being hand dug in Tijuana recently by like 100 guys with picks, shovels, and wheelbarrows. What took them all day to do I could have done alone, with a backhoe.
@@seemlesslies so you are going to believe everything he says way to go.
@@seemlesslies this is just not true at all.
You just have to look at California to answer that question. $100 billion to build 500 miles and 25 years to get it done, if it ever does.
they could never.
Well, the politicians who planned it were incompetent. That's not an argument against light rail in general. You just need better politicians... oh wait
War in Iraq and ocupation of Afganistan would cost America 550 bilions $ and lot od lives.
@Floriduh Man because lobbying to oil company is any better.
It will never get built. Lived there for 27 years, infrastructure is always over budget and way behind schedule
If this was a military project, they would've did it decades ago.
Presto
Just imagine if the USA shifted money from military funding to railway funding, just for one year. There would high-speed rails both on east and west coast. But, the people get what they deserve and vote for.
That drone that got shot down was $110 million dollars. They have nice drones in the tens of thousands... That drone is more than a fighter plane. That shows you how dumb our politicians and military are. How much waste and corruption go into that one 110 million dollar item???
@@VandelayIndustriesLLC $110 million wouldn't pay for even one full mile of the California HSR system. Who has the waste and corruption again?
...would have "done" it ...
Car companies will run out of business.
Europe and Japan: "We have passenger trains."
United States: " We have freight trains."
Russia: "Why not both?"
China: We have it all!
Europe has a _lot_ of freight trains - possibly more than the USA does.
@@miscbits6399 I mean there defnetly are, but the US has more nontheless, i dont wanna critisize anyone, just sayng
The oil industries dosen´t like rail, but our planet loved, kiss
India: we have them all + hyperloop too
I literally lost it when you said, "and then there's the US" and the slow moving train 😂😂😂😂
I'm from US and l thought the same. Especially as slow as they had it moving. Cheesy but funny.
I know. The US sucks in many respects. BUT I wouldn't trade it for the freedoms that I do have.
@@bfun4615 you don't have freedoms 😅 you're not free, they want you to believe that but think about it.
@@bfun4615 What are these 'freedoms' that you speak of? Are they truly not present in other countries that have more developed public transport and infrastructure?
Nitin K LMAO
Because politicians and greedy oil monopolies that line their pockets...
yup, just look at the 5 billion dollar hit california took on their high speed rail "disaster"
Advocates for bike Lanes would be just as irresponsible with other people's money.
While ture that money shapes a lot of choices, that goes equally for the Democrats as well, they just have different corporations and money makers at their back. As for the train issue, it is something to consider, but it doesn't work everywhere. Out toward the Midwest and California, its a much more flat landscape, allowing for better planning. But over toward here in WV, we are nothing but hills and mountains. Not fit for proper train infrastructure. The population of the US is also very spread out, with places like California and New York having higher population density. The big factor though, is, how can the rails make money back? Safety wise, it fairly safe, only running into hickups here and there, but thats usually mother nature throwing a curveball. That leave profit as the question, as if it doesn't make enough, it will bankrupt states. With our system, thats too big of a problem, as money going toward a project with little to no financial gain could cause stuff like education and emergency services to take hits. Trains are helpful, and better in certain areas. But across the country would take a lot of money, and a lot of time. Now, the jobs they would make, good thing. This would allow people looking for jobs to possibly have a job for at least a month, if not more, allowing them to get back on their feet. But again, we reach the issue of money. This time though, how much is from state pockets, as place like WV or Kentucky doesn't have as much money as California or New York to afford maintenance. The feul cost as well is important. In place like Japan and China, population density is high enough to warrent it over cars everywhere. India and Europe as well. Europe is also a lot smaller than other continents, meaning countries boarder eacher other a lot more frequently, and cities are offten closer, as a trip from Berlin to Paris could be done in around 8 hours, by car no less. Where as here, major cities tend to be farther apart, depending on state. Like here, getting from DC to Pittsburgh to Philadelphia is roughly 5 1/2 hours, just for one big state. By comparison, a drive from San Francisco to Philadelphia would be 42 hours by car, where as a trip from Lisbon Portugal to Warsaw Poland would be roughly 31 hours by car, and would take through 5 countries, not over just one. These countires have the advantage of large amounts of people in smaller boarders. We have a lot of people spread out over large boarders. While transit from San Francisco to LA is a good choicem as it could lessen gas emition because of all the people on board those trains, places like out here and Florida start to be bigger questions. Thats not even going into the need for protective architecture, cause California is tectonic nightmare. Not as bad as Japan, but still, not prefered.
hh, and don't forget the dangers of Tornado alley, as tornados could completely ruin the train tracks needed.
@@VA_Nightshade lmao