How China’s high speed rail KILLED the short haul flight

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How China’s high speed rail KILLED the short haul flight​

China introduced its first high speed bullet train in 2008, just three years after it retired its last steam train. Fast forward to 2022 and there are now a staggering 9,600 high speed rail lines transporting 2.2 billion passengers each year. Today travelling long distances so rapidly has transformed how people commute and dramatically reduced the number of short haul flights taken each year. Elliot took a trip and successfully completed The Fully Charged Show's first ever train review!

00:00 Shanghai
01:00 Bye bye planes
01:37 2008 - the first bullet train
02:40 The last commercial steam train
03:30 The 431km train!
05:05 The bullet train vs short haul flights
06:52 Trains are never delayed
08:29 Never reviewed a train before
09:00 150km could be a short commute
10:45 The elephant in the room
11:30 CO2 per transport mode
12:41 A trip to the countryside and concluding thoughts

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[WinterFangs]

Need a HSR in pakistan one day, inshallah.

 

[Asimzranger]

Need a HSR in pakistan one day, inshallah.

What happen to hassan ali lol love your dp

 

[S10]

Need a HSR in pakistan one day, inshallah.

Could be, Islamabad to Karachi in 5 hours won't be just a dream.

 

[FuturePAF]

Let’s work on a freight oriented line first, so it pays for itself and add back HSR when the finances make sense. Getting somewhere a little faster but at a much higher price is probably not affordable for most people. We need a line that can run without subsidies.

Most HSR around the world needs subsidies to survive.

Rather then a bullet train, I would hope to see a very efficient and profitable freight line that would incentive FDI and factories to be put up around Pakistan to produce more products for the global markets. We have a lot of motorways on which to run passenger service to each and every corner of the nation, and we can put in train service in between freight service, but we have to do a pivot to geoeconomics and maximize the earning potential of our population. Once we have the money, and people have more money in their pockets, Inshallah, our own banks will be able to finance HSR in the areas it is economically feasible, eventually linking up the whole nation just like the motorways were build over the last 25 years, piece by piece.

 

[WotTen]

Not just in China.

How Italy's high-speed trains helped kill Alitalia

Alitalia closes on October 14, but Italy's high-speed trains, the Frecce and Italo networks, are set to increase their passenger numbers.

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