Bullet Trains in China
We travelled in a bullet train from Beijing to Xian a distance of more than 1200 km in 5.5 hrs
Beijing Bullet train station was huge modern
In China only passengers are allowed inside railway stations
The station had a huge open ground in front with lot of flowers
After scanning our baggages one has to go to the waiting rooms @ to classes of ticket or @ to train numbers and wait till half hour before departure when we have to go to announced platforms like Airport gates and check in
The waiting areas are neat with toilets shops small restaurants
One can go out too showing ticket .
The bullet train was sleek and shiny
There were more than ten bullet trains in this sector itself almost one an hour .
Totally china has around 69 bullet trains on specially built tracks covering the huge country .
We sat in the plush comfort of our second class tickets and the pantry car was next door .
There is lot of criticism on our PM Modi and his bullet train idea .
I agree with the arguments on why bullet trains when the existing tracks are so bad and accident prone .
But we also need to have long term vision
Indians are notoriously myopic
APJ Abdul Kalam sir asked us to aim for the stars so that we may reach the moon .
In Dubai during Sheikh Rashids time the father of Sheikh Mohammed it was just a small town with a busy port and surrounding deserts
The people wore rags and were dusty bedouins .
He asked British advisers how to catapult his country as a trading center as he knew Dubai had no oil unlike Abudhabi
They told him build a trade centre
He did one 25 km into the desert in stark widerness a stand alone building and butt of jokes
He told my city will grow here
True to his words today Dubai World trade center is in beggining of the wide Shiekh Zayed Road with Manhattan type of skyscrapers dwarfing it all the way to jebel Ali .
Even the Kochi metro was castigated by some constipated mallus as not cost effective
My dear morons these are long term projects they take time to show results
Please think big .
Expand your tiny grey matters
Bullet trains are not show pieces alone they are bullets of progress .
Ahmedabad and Mumbai are the commercial industrial powerhouses of the country
faster movement between the two will make a difference .
Connectivity is key to progress .
China realised this
Thier villages were full of drab poverty but they connected the cities with bullet trains and superhighways
Strangely the intermediate villages all bloomed
Today there are 64 bullet trains crisscrosing the country .
It took 5.5 hrs to cover 1256 km for us from Beijing to Xian a smooth journey at 300 km per hr
Of course its vitals that tracks in India have to be relaid rebulit repaired for safety but lets get one bullet going as a start alongwith
The progress in China today is amazing
Most cities have five tracked two storeyed highways with flyovers criscrossing roundabouts and dizzy exits in all directions to provide seamless transportation
And in kerala for building one highway from north to south they are still debating whether it will split the state
Omg
We travelled in a bullet train from Beijing to Xian a distance of more than 1200 km in 5.5 hrs
Beijing Bullet train station was huge modern
In China only passengers are allowed inside railway stations
The station had a huge open ground in front with lot of flowers
After scanning our baggages one has to go to the waiting rooms @ to classes of ticket or @ to train numbers and wait till half hour before departure when we have to go to announced platforms like Airport gates and check in
The waiting areas are neat with toilets shops small restaurants
One can go out too showing ticket .
The bullet train was sleek and shiny
There were more than ten bullet trains in this sector itself almost one an hour .
Totally china has around 69 bullet trains on specially built tracks covering the huge country .
We sat in the plush comfort of our second class tickets and the pantry car was next door .
There is lot of criticism on our PM Modi and his bullet train idea .
I agree with the arguments on why bullet trains when the existing tracks are so bad and accident prone .
But we also need to have long term vision
Indians are notoriously myopic
APJ Abdul Kalam sir asked us to aim for the stars so that we may reach the moon .
In Dubai during Sheikh Rashids time the father of Sheikh Mohammed it was just a small town with a busy port and surrounding deserts
The people wore rags and were dusty bedouins .
He asked British advisers how to catapult his country as a trading center as he knew Dubai had no oil unlike Abudhabi
They told him build a trade centre
He did one 25 km into the desert in stark widerness a stand alone building and butt of jokes
He told my city will grow here
True to his words today Dubai World trade center is in beggining of the wide Shiekh Zayed Road with Manhattan type of skyscrapers dwarfing it all the way to jebel Ali .
Even the Kochi metro was castigated by some constipated mallus as not cost effective
My dear morons these are long term projects they take time to show results
Please think big .
Expand your tiny grey matters
Bullet trains are not show pieces alone they are bullets of progress .
Ahmedabad and Mumbai are the commercial industrial powerhouses of the country
faster movement between the two will make a difference .
Connectivity is key to progress .
China realised this
Thier villages were full of drab poverty but they connected the cities with bullet trains and superhighways
Strangely the intermediate villages all bloomed
Today there are 64 bullet trains crisscrosing the country .
It took 5.5 hrs to cover 1256 km for us from Beijing to Xian a smooth journey at 300 km per hr
Of course its vitals that tracks in India have to be relaid rebulit repaired for safety but lets get one bullet going as a start alongwith
The progress in China today is amazing
Most cities have five tracked two storeyed highways with flyovers criscrossing roundabouts and dizzy exits in all directions to provide seamless transportation
And in kerala for building one highway from north to south they are still debating whether it will split the state
Omg
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