China plans to open 3,000 km of new railway lines in 2023
Railway in Tongzhou, China
More than 3,000 kilometers of new railway lines will be put into operation in China this year, including 2,500 kilometers of high-speed railways, Chinese media reports.
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Quantity, yes, but primarily quality.
Regrettfully current railway standards are not optimal, even worse, “cementing”.
Devastatingly, now robustness, resiliency and redundancy, the urgently requested, is missing.
(“Long, heavy” trains is not sustainable, etc. Electrification has to be redundant, etc., etc.)
At “our” hemisphere, for added capacity and utilisation of existing, a decisive upgrading of infrastructure, a shift, now should start!