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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: 2) by VLM on Friday August 10 2018, @12:32PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 10 2018, @12:32PM (#719883)

    business desirability

    In the USA the left wing dominated areas are mostly not doing very well because businesses don't want to pay taxes that are a multiple of other areas because building something five times larger than required gave some govt official kickbacks or nice feels. The people don't like it either, paying for literally useless stuff is expensive and awards no quality of life benefit.

    Its like debating why there's too many handicapped parking spots (as a way to discourage driving) and the stereotypical way to fight common sense is ranting about "you'll want those spots when you're old" and its like, naah, if we got rid of half of the handicapped spots we'd merely have 9 out of 10 empty all the time instead of 19 out of 20 empty all the time now. Now the "thing" is shitty internet-shopping service spot, so we've lost ten more permanently empty parking spots to dotcom delivery services and online ordering that apparently almost no one uses because the spots are always empty.

    I admit, I do park in the "Professional Parking Only" spots at home depot simply because its funny.

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