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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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Beijing-Tianjin Train Reaches 350 km/h (217 mph)
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Thursday August 09 2018, @02:09PM
Well I meant more in terms of profit, like supposedly if you add all the govt subsidies and bankruptcies and stuff together over all time the airlines as an industry segment have never made a net civilization wide profit, although they are a luxurious way to travel compared to stagecoach or steamship.
Not everything needs to run a profit to be worth doing, everything from military spending to sports to space to parks to artwork all happen as a luxury without a profit or net gain to society. If you look at high speed rail strictly as a business its always a really shitty business, if you look at it like a piece of performance art or a national dick size contest its pretty impressive. Like, I donno, as a business is Glacier National Park a good business strictly and solely from the point of view of profitable business? Actually it might be a better business than high speed rail, maybe thats a bad example, LOL.
A bit over a century ago there was a "battleship race" to make ever larger battleships mostly a nation dick size war, ditto "space race" around mid century, and its entirely possible high speed rail is the same thing for the modern era. Mine's bigger.... I mean longer (tracks)... I mean faster but in a good sexy sense not only lasting 20 seconds... something like that.