Good afternoon here's your daily reminder to STOP CALLING RAILWAYS WITH SUB-200KMH TOP SPEEDS "HIGH SPEED RAIL"https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-05-29/ethiopia-already-is-the-china-of-africa …
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The first high-speed railway in the world (Japan's, of course) debuted with a top speed of 200kmh, or about 125mph. The current industry standard is around 300kmh (186mph).
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This is why I am outraged by constant American references to any railway that manages to clear 70mph as "high speed rail." Japan's CONVENTIONAL narrow-gauge express trains manage a top speed of 130kmh, or 80mph. They are NOT high speed rail!!
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It is maliciously deceptive advertising, it SABOTAGES the mental image of "high speed rail" for millions of Americans. Disgraceful! Journalists must learn to do their homework or they must cease and desist. A Chinese railway topping out at 75mph in Ethiopia is not HSR!
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The Chinese built a railway in Ethiopia. Not a high-speed railway, just a railway. Most rail travel occurs on railways: not high speed railways. But Americans have been so fucked by poor rail service for so long that they need a new word to refer to "modern and functional" trains
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Here in DPRK (Kalifornia), the media/pundits have to call it HSR, even tho it'll never come close otherwise the voters would realize they've been hoodwinked
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in their defense, the CAHSR project is at least a plan for actual HSR (300kmh operating speeds, etc), unlike, say, the notorious Acela
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Hm, plan. I'm not sure I'd go with that term, I'd call it a pipe dream. Or a hallucination.
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those are not mutually exclusive!
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