Comments on: High-Tech Transportation for a Growing Nation http://greenleapforward.com/2010/05/04/high-tech-transportation-for-a-growing-nation/ Tracking the emerging technological, commercial, political and social revolution that is greening China's red-hot economy. Mon, 21 May 2012 17:14:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Jim Rothstein http://greenleapforward.com/2010/05/04/high-tech-transportation-for-a-growing-nation/#comment-47307 Jim Rothstein Sun, 09 May 2010 20:06:12 +0000 http://greenleapforward.com/?p=268#comment-47307 As always, very clean and informative. China's HSR certainly seems impressive, and much needed improvement over China's traditional rail. But a number of questions: -migrant workers, which you mention. When HSR cuts traditional (slower) service levels shouldn't China mitigate the higher prices for migrants? (My experience was that transportation prices, regardless of mode, increased markedly during just before Chinese New Year - hurting migrants, before HSR.) Perhaps the real issue is having only one or two large holidays each year? - "... infrastructure projects quickly can create unintended consequences ..." Are you being a little too kind? Do you see evidence of any increased planning and environmental concerns BEFORE building? Or is still dynamite? That's enough for now. HSR rail is good for China and in US, but As always, very clean and informative. China’s HSR certainly seems impressive, and much needed improvement over China’s traditional rail.

But a number of questions:

-migrant workers, which you mention. When HSR cuts traditional (slower) service levels shouldn’t China mitigate the higher prices for migrants? (My experience was that transportation prices, regardless of mode, increased markedly during just before Chinese New Year - hurting migrants, before HSR.) Perhaps the real issue is having only one or two large holidays each year?

- “… infrastructure projects quickly can create unintended consequences …”
Are you being a little too kind?
Do you see evidence of any increased planning and environmental concerns BEFORE building? Or is still dynamite?

That’s enough for now. HSR rail is good for China and in US, but

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