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Kawasaki Developing 217 MPH Train for Japan
Japan is now making the 217 MPH train to zip across the country. The original bullet train was made back 1964. Need ask why on earth can't the US make a decent cross country train?
Think solution is for America to outsource it to the Japanese.
--Popper
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Kawasaki Developing 217 MPH Train for Japan
http://cleantechnica.com/2008/09/19/kawasaki-developing-217-mph-tra...
But Japanese train-riders will have settle for the Shinkansen train in the near future—the Kawasaki design won’t be finished until March 2009, and engineering verification won’t be completed until March 2010.
Americans—specifically, Californians—have to wait even longer for their 220 MPH high-speed train, which won’t be ready until 2030.
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Think solution is for America to outsource it to the Japanese.
--Popper
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Kawasaki Developing 217 MPH Train for Japan
http://cleantechnica.com/2008/09/19/kawasaki-developing-217-mph-tra...
But Japanese train-riders will have settle for the Shinkansen train in the near future—the Kawasaki design won’t be finished until March 2009, and engineering verification won’t be completed until March 2010.
Americans—specifically, Californians—have to wait even longer for their 220 MPH high-speed train, which won’t be ready until 2030.
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Permalink Reply by White Lion on -
Building the train is not the problem, politics and practicality is.
http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/story?id=7306761&page=1
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Permalink Reply by Popper on -
Kinda. Two quick points:
1. Amtrak is supported by the US Government and my tax dollars. And, it is a complete disaster. No sane person could compare Amtrak to the very efficient Japanese Shinkan-sen (which is also supported by my tax dollars since I live in Japan).
2. GM destroyed public transportation in California in the 1930s (as they more recently destroyed the electric car). If not for GM and a few other American companies, we would have public transportation in California, and perhaps other cities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_Streetcar_Scandal
http://www.culturechange.org/issue10/taken-for-a-ride.htm
http://www.trainweb.org/mts/ctc/ctc06.html
Different topic here, but this is the company my tax dollars will be bailing out ? Criminal !!
--Popper
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Permalink Reply by White Lion on
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Dude, no matter how you slice it, the United States with all of its faults is still the greatest country on this planet. In fact I've been to Japan and it ain't that great. People living all on top of each other, the apartments in Tokyo are the size of a bathroom here in the states. Tokyo is hands down one of the top most expensive places to live on this planet.
America's struggling with the economy right now and it wasn't too long ago Japan had the very same problems only much worse.
Granted in the outer prefectures the price goes down, but if you're a city boy Tokyo sucks.
I just read somewhere things are so bad in Japan, they're paying foreigners to leave and never come back.
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Permalink Reply by Popper on
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I pretty much agree with everything you wrote above, tho I have not lived in every country "on the planet". Except that I overall think Tokyo a pretty neat place, granted not compared to US cities. You're referring to Japanese-Brazilians who are being paid to leave, and I think it a pretty poor decision on the part of the Japanese gov't.
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