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How are more people not talking about the futuristic cities in China? (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by hexi@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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Look up a video in Shenzhen or Chongqing. Everything looks 2 decades out, and the giant crystal skyscrapers light up different colors. Sometimes the whole thing is a TV.

China surpassed USAmerica in GDP already, but it doesn't look close to tied in development and advanced technologies.

The trains there go hundreds of miles in less than an hour, you could commute across the country every day.

Meanwhile in America the "middle class" is struggling to have some walls and a roof. Record debt and crumbling infrastructure. How is all of this ignored and not talked about everywhere?

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[–] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s how I feel about transit infrastructure in North America. We can’t be bothered to spend the required money or effort to solve transit issues properly, but we accept ever-higher costs for constantly having to maintain and build car infrastructure because you can always kick that can down the road, so to speak.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's pathetic. I was in Minneapolis when the I-35 bridge just up and collapsed. Majorish city, population of millions, I-35 is one of the country's major transit cooridors, and this giant fucking bridge just folds one day.

[–] v_krishna@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Minneapolis has like 400K people. Even if you add St Paul you still are only up to 750K. The full metro area is 3.7M but that's including a LOT of decidedly not urban areas

Edit not saying that means their bridges should collapse but it is definitely not comparable to any cities in Asia.