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Originally Posted by acottawa
It has money for high speed trains to nowhere,
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did you pull all of this out of your ass or something?
Year million riders ±% p.a.
2007 61 —
2008 127 +108.20%
2009 179 +40.94%
2010 290 +62.01%
2011 440 +51.72%
2012 486 +10.45%
2013 672 +38.27%
2014 893 +32.89%
2015 1,161 +30.01%
2016 1,440 +24.03%
2017 1,713 +18.96%
2018 2,001 +16.81%
2019 2,290 +14.44%
That is 2.3 BILLION riders in 2019.
I've been around China on their High speed trains. The stations are extremely crowded, as are the trains.
and meanwhile you are on record stating that people should use as much energy as they see fit.