The New Deal: China’s Bullet Train
China's $300 billion train project
My husband has a habit of leaving interesting articles ear-marked for me on my desk. It’s something I really appreciate as, all too often, I get so absorbed in whatever project I’m working on that I sometimes get a wee bit out of touch with the world. Take, for example, the fact that I didn’t know Michael Jackson died until a few days later when I stopped to get coffee at the airport and I saw the front cover of the paper. “Holy shit!” I said, “Michael Jackson died?” “Two days ago,” informed the Starbucks barista. Sometimes it takes me a while to get around to the accumulating stack of articles–and it’s a favorite weekend activity of mine (especially when the boys–Charlie and David–are taking their late afternoon nap) to take the time to sit down (often with a glass of red wine) and read through them. Today, I’m reading an article from Fortune about China’s new high-speed train system, which will encompass some 16,000 miles and consume some 117 million tons of concrete when it’s all said and done (circa 2020). The project will also help stimulate the economy–a public works project that involves trains. I obviously love it.
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