• MrMakabar@slrpnk.netEnglish
    52·
    6 days ago

    California is actually building pretty normal high speed rail. China started construction on the first high speed rail line in 1999 and not 2010. Obviously plans were made earlier as well. For California the start of construction was 2015.

    So basically the entire meme gets pretty much everything wrong.

    • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      5 days ago

      California’s (i.e. the USA’s) inability to complete the most basic high-speed rail project is making it the laughing stock of the developed world.

      Japan managed this in 1964. France in 1981. And China has indeed built literally tens of thousands of kilometers of line in an astonishing fast period, and yes, mostly in the last 15 years.

      So, on the contrary, this cartoon is directionally right in every way.