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posted by martyb on Thursday August 09 2018, @07:51AM   Printer-friendly
from the a-very-low-flying-aircraft dept.

Xinhua reports:

China on Wednesday increased the maximum speed of bullet trains on the Beijing-Tianjin high-speed railway to 350 km per hour (kph), reducing the inter-city travel time by five minutes.

The route now runs a Fuxing (Rejuvenation), the newest bullet train model developed in China.

The increase will shorten travel time between Beijing South Railway Station and Tianjin Railway Station from 35 minutes to 30 minutes with no price difference in fares.


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by opinionated_science on Thursday August 09 2018, @12:20PM (3 children)

    by opinionated_science (4031) on Thursday August 09 2018, @12:20PM (#719326)

    Anyone know if the Shinkansen got the cool earthquake monitoring system working?

    Oh, looks like they did https://www.railway-technology.com/features/feature122751/ [railway-technology.com]

    Having been on the Shinkansen, I was more impressed all the trains to *get* to the fast one were on time...

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Thursday August 09 2018, @01:06PM (2 children)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 09 2018, @01:06PM (#719346)

    Having been on the Shinkansen, I was more impressed all the trains to *get* to the fast one were on time...

    That's the last mile problem for mass transit which always explodes costs. Its very easy technologically speaking for me to absorb or emit far over a thousand people per minute from two far apart places using modern mass transit tech... its almost like having a magical video game portal gun ... now the killer problem is those are point sources (sinks?) of thousands of people per minute continuously all rush hour far beyond what an interstate highway can handle or really anything can handle other than smaller mass transit. You literally need multiple sidewalks. Its like the peak moment of everyone moving at a major pro sports stadium, but larger, and it lasts for an entire rush hour. Its very expensive and difficult to handle the crowds without repelling people away by being too expensive or too crowded or the overall trip is too slow.

    In the old days the problem was moving 1000 people per minute a thousand miles, much like in the old days the major expensive of phone calls was all the switchgear and undersea cables between Chicago and London or whatever. in the mass transit era the major expensive of travel is getting people to and from those single points, must like the major cost of phone service in a post-computer network world is the local loop not the thousand miles and long distance is essentially free. Mass transit doesn't solve problems in the sense that cheap long distance doesn't mean my phone bill is zero.

    Different tech just has different bills to pay.

    • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday August 09 2018, @05:41PM (1 child)

      by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday August 09 2018, @05:41PM (#719496) Homepage Journal

      There are high-rises all over Vancouver, even in the neighboring cities. That there are lots of people close to all the transit stations enables Vancouver BC to operate completely robotic elevated light rail that comes every six minutes during rush hour.

      By contrast, downtown Vancouver WA has severe height restrictions due to a nearby civil aviation field that was at first an Army Air Corps base.

      Even well away from the flight path, Vancouver is heavily suburban. Many, many upscale homes with garages for parking your car in.

      For reasons that I am unable to fathom there is widespread opposition to running Portland's MAX light rail into Vancouver when they build the new I-5 bridge over the Columbia. That means that the old bridge will rust into the river well before the new one gets built.

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      • (Score: 2) by VLM on Friday August 10 2018, @12:36PM

        by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 10 2018, @12:36PM (#719886)

        operate completely robotic elevated light rail that comes every six minutes during rush hour

        Bet that wasn't cheap. Now imagine they built a high speed inter-city rail station there, and now they gotta scale that infrastructure up by 10x to handle the new traffic. Thats where the real money goes, you can build HSR pretty cheap when its mostly running thru cheap farm lands, but for people to use it to capacity now you have the "cheap" task of installing and then operating at a loss forever, subways and El-trains...