Saw this on Raul Ibanez FB site:
CHINA LAUNCHES WORLD’S FASTEST TRAIN SERVICE. BEIJING: China on Saturday launched what it described as the world’s fastest train service covering a distance of 1,068 kms at the average speed of 350 kms an hour. The distance between Wuhan in central China and Guangzhou in the country’s south was covered by the high-speed train in two hours forty five minutes. | The new service will cut the travel time between these cities by more than six hours. The train reached a maximum speed of 394.2 km per hour during trail runs that begun on December 9. The commercial operation was launched today with two trains covering the distance while passing through 20 different cities along the route. | The high speed line will use technology developed in co-operation with foreign firms such as Siemens, Bombardier and Alstom, sources said. | The new service is expected to act as a catalyst in the development of central China that includes backward areas like Xianning by linking it to the highly developed Pearl River Delhi, which is an industrial hub in south China. | Chinese railway authorities pointed out that the average speed of the high-speed railways is 243 km per hour in Japan, 232 km per hour in Germany and 277 km per hour in France. | The era of high speed railway began in China in 2004 when Guangzhou was linked to Shenzhen, both in Guangdong Province, with a train traveling at 160 km per hour. This was followed by the launch of a high-speed line linking the capital with the port city of Tianjin at the time of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. | The government recently announced it plans to build 42 high-speed lines by 2012 in order to spur economic growth amid the global downturn. China has unveiled a massive rail development program, considered to be the world’s biggest plan outside the United States. The goal is to take the rail network from the current 86,000 kilometers to 120,000 kilometers. PHOTO: Gizmodo http://bit.ly/5ZL2kk |
Can you imagine if there is a train service like this from Manila to my country, Republic of Bicol, instead of the Pupugak-pugak National Railways? The distance from Manila to Matnog, Sorsogon is ( i don’t know) 700 km? So at 350km per hour, that’s like a 2 hour train ride which would normally take roughly 15hours of driving in a ridiculously circuitous provincial road. Gawd, you have no idea how bad it is to drive to my country. Will this be on the next infrastructure agenda of the next President of the Philippines to the Bicol Country or will they just overload Pampanga with every imaginable infrastructure projects while us in Bicol should just be content, happy, uberly excited with the current tulak service? Ugh! We need the Chinese. Tell them we are part of Africa.
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Wow sana nga may magandang Train na to Bicol. Gusto ko makapunta doon.
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reynz Reply:
December 28th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
this will just be in our dreams until all these corrupt politicians disappear
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Oo! Sana nga magkaroon na rin ng matulin na train papunta sa bikol para madali na pagumu-uwi ako.8hrs lang byahe papunta sa Naga City bogbog na katawan mo. At maganda rin paglilipad ka na naman papunta sa ibang bansa madali lang. Hindi ka na kailangan pang maghotel para maghintal ng yong paglipad.
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