China plans highway system bigger than ours

[pscot]

http://english.people.com.cn/200502/24/eng20050224_174512.html

This is from the peoples daily online. One might think that peak oil, global warming and a population over a billion would lead to the idea of mass transit. One would be wrong.



The newly passed national expressway plan means China will invest 2 trillion yuan (US$240 billion) in an 85,000-kilometre-expressway network scheduled to be built over the next 30 years.

It will have seven routes out of Beijing, nine routes from north to south and 18 from east to west, and will connect all cities with a population above 200,000. By the end of 2004, 34,000 kilometres of expressways had been in use in China.

Experts said China's overall economic output would double by 2020, which will lead to a demand for a more effective and efficient transport system.

[AndyA]

1. Keep shopping at Wal-Mart, America! China can afford to do anything they want to do.

Thanks to America.

Meanwhile, over here, everything is falling apart. Literally.

I know of bridges so old they are decaying and falling on cars below, killing people.

But run to Wal-Mart so the Chinese can build new ones! What do we need bridges for? The ones we still have from 1955 are just fine... :eyes:

[monktonman]

2. Yeah, like making the same foolish mistakes we did.

[pscot]

3. The Chinese are also urging car makers

to set up shop in China. Three hundred million drivers and a Chevy in every garage. Insane.

[Rage for Order]

6. God knows Wal Mart is the only store selling Chinese goods

I support buying American products whenever possible, but to try and lay the entire problem at Wal Mart's feet is disingenuous.

[AndyA]

7. Wal-Mart is the BIGGEST, most COMMON problem when it comes to shopping in America.

Add to that their disgraceful treatment of their employees, and their support of the GOP, it's far from disingenuous to single out Wal-Mart. In fact, they are the logical target.

[Leopolds Ghost]

4. I'm not too worried.

With even 2/3 as many drivers as there are in the US, China (and by extension the world) will run out of steel, before we even run out of oil.

[bananas]

5. A bamboo bicycle superhighway. nt