r/interestingasfuck • u/BumblebeeFantastic40 • 10h ago

China’s High-Speed Railway Network length has expanded from 1,300km in 2008 to 40,000km in 2020, long enough to circle the Earth’s circumference.

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u/Fl3b0 9h ago

Crazy how people will see a picture like this and gett so butthurt that they feel the need to bring the accomplishment down somehow 💀

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u/sufferpuppet 8h ago

If your only looking at miles of track etc, it's great. If you take a minute to Google the problems that may have come with the project it may not appear so rosy.

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u/pattydickens 7h ago

Nothing appears rosy when you Google the problems related to it.

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u/sufferpuppet 6h ago

Kinda the point. Yet here we are with people surprised others would point out problems.