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The crash of two high speed trains in Wenzhou, China on Saturday, killing 39, is beginning to raise questions about China’s plans to export its HSR technology: Trainmakers CSR Corp. and China CNR Corp., builders including China Railway Construction Corp. and parts makers such as Zhuzhou CSR Times Electric Co., have targeted markets including the [...]
I had a (very) brief appearance on NPR Marketplace’s Morning Report segment – you can listen to it here. The topic was China’s new Beijing to Shanghai HSR route which opened today to apparently rave reviews. The segment is short and so only a snippet of our discussion was included, where I trash Congress for [...]
Once a TV show has been running for a while, producers sometimes get lazy and decide to phone in an episode in by putting together a bunch of clips from previous episodes. Apparently that happens in journalism too. Instead of breaking new ground in examining the California high speed rail project, California Watch and the [...]
Today’s New York Times has a pretty good article on the rapidly-growing Chinese high speed rail system, which will open a link from Beijing to Shanghai – two of the nation’s most populous and important cities – on July 1. Those two cities are about the same distance as New York and Atlanta, a trip [...]
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