You hit the nail on the head. Things get done in China. In my birth country, Netherlands, it is a drama with environmental concerns, paperwork, licenses, animals etc.
For example Netherlands introduced toll for trucks to move them to electric. But to install a charger at the trucking company, it will take upto 7 years!! That is totally insane. And since there is a change of government every 4 years or 2 years currently, everything changes again.
At least all the investment in infrastructure in China benefits its citizens. Unlike investing more in the military industrial complex.
Don’t you think having clean, reliable, innovative transport should be prioritized? How can you be proud of a 100 year old system that is crumbling and no notion of any investment. Maybe now NYC has a ‘socialist’ mayor, things will improve. But to catch up will take a long time.
That is totally insane. And since there is a change of government every 4 years or 2 years currently, everything changes again.
That’s the other thing, that I bring up with a lot of these wants (not saying that in a hateful way), is that relative to now everything seems like a good idea but in the US too, we have a new administration every so often, for us it’s 4 to 8 years (depending on how elections play out), so there’s no way for anything to really get done on an effective scale with a lot of projects that can have numerous positive societal impacts.
Relative to now all these ideas seem amazing but what happens when the next president doesn’t like them and goes, “funding cut!”?
You hit the nail on the head. Things get done in China. In my birth country, Netherlands, it is a drama with environmental concerns, paperwork, licenses, animals etc.
For example Netherlands introduced toll for trucks to move them to electric. But to install a charger at the trucking company, it will take upto 7 years!! That is totally insane. And since there is a change of government every 4 years or 2 years currently, everything changes again.
At least all the investment in infrastructure in China benefits its citizens. Unlike investing more in the military industrial complex.
Don’t you think having clean, reliable, innovative transport should be prioritized? How can you be proud of a 100 year old system that is crumbling and no notion of any investment. Maybe now NYC has a ‘socialist’ mayor, things will improve. But to catch up will take a long time.
That’s the other thing, that I bring up with a lot of these wants (not saying that in a hateful way), is that relative to now everything seems like a good idea but in the US too, we have a new administration every so often, for us it’s 4 to 8 years (depending on how elections play out), so there’s no way for anything to really get done on an effective scale with a lot of projects that can have numerous positive societal impacts.
Relative to now all these ideas seem amazing but what happens when the next president doesn’t like them and goes, “funding cut!”?