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The Shenyang Metro wayfinding does not need to go this hard. Pic by 原味鸡塞高 on Rednote.

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Today, China & Vietnam jointly established a "Railway Cooperation Committee" that will begin construction on the Lào Cai-Hà Nội-Hải Phòng standard gauge railway to Kunming and start feasibility studies on Đồng Đăng-Hà Nội (to Nanning) and Móng Cái-Hải Phòng (to coastal China) lines.

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Welp that escalated quickly for the Texas Central HSR Project.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Excellent article on the myths of determinism of built form on public transit, N American sprawl can generate transit ridership if the transit is frequent and available at all times of the day. "You can't estimate the need for a bridge by the amount of people swimming across the river today."

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The wildest thing on earth right now is Uganda planning to start construction on a standard gauge railway that supports double-stack containers in wellcars with overhead 25 kV 50 Hz AC electrification and ERTMS/ETCS level 2 signaling.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

The Jiashan to Xitang Regional Railway under construction. This line is part of a new network of suburban lines connecting Shanghai to a number of cities in neighbouring Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces in the west (Suzhou, Jiaxing and Huzhou Cities).

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Next up was a visit to the CRRC #Chongqing Train Factory - one of the biggest metro and monorail manufacturing plants in the world 🚇 Thanks again to iChongqing for the priceless access 🙏🏻 #China #NonstopEurotrip

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A CR450-AF was spotted last night in Chongqing, returning back from lower speed testing in Beijing. Are they getting ready to test it for 400kph service speeds and/or break the world conventional speed record on the Chongqing-Chengdu Central HSL, the world's 1st 400kph rated conventional HSL?...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Today we visited #Chongqing East - which opens this June 🇨🇳 It's fascinating to see behind the scenes of the world's largest high-speed railway station 🚆 Thanks to iChongqing for arranging this amazing experience 🙏🏻 #China #NonstopEurotrip

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Paris' Metro Line 14 is now running every 85 seconds at peak times, or 42 trains/hour. The 17-mile automated line, which was extended last year, serves 800,000 daily riders and is expected to serve 1 million every day once Line 15 opens late next year.

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

Finishing touches being put on Tianjin Metro Line 7 Phase I in preparation for opening this year. L7 is a fully underground 26.5km long line with 21 stations. The line runs north south thru urban Tianjin using 6 car Type A trains. Estimated to cost 265 million INT$/km to build.

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Hong Kong ExCo approved the Northern Link Project (red) today, paving the way for construction to start this year. The 11km 5 station underground line costs an eye watering 1 billion INT$/km to build. The line will shrink travel times from 古洞 to 錦上路 from 60-80 min to 12 min.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

"When I think metropolis I always think of places like Hong Kong in Blade Runner, and increasingly of mainland Chinese cities that take things to another level." The last part is an understatement, Chongqing alone is already too many levels.

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Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính moved the proposed start date for the construction of the North-South Express Railway (Vietnam's high speed line connecting Hà Nội and Hồ Chí Minh City) ahead by 1 year to the end of 2026. As well as to start...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Remember how I said quad-track high speed railway corridors are strangely common in China?

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

A friend just sent me this and asked if that is what goes on in my mind all day. Should I get mad? 地铁 = Metro/subway.

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Chongqing Metro Line 15 trains, capable of operating up to 140kph, being delivered to site. Line 15 is a 67km long 25 station under construction crosstown express metro line...

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

When I was in Canada, I met a China international student and asked where in China she's from. "You've never heard of it." "Try me" I said. "Nantong" "Oh N of Suzhou over the river." "How'd you know that?" "They're building a subway." What I didn't know is their subway had embedded LED windows.

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

Momentum, @ndhapple.bsky.social’s fantastic report is up. It ties together a lot of positive threads in US passenger railroading that have emerged recently. *Electrification is salvation for passenger rail*. Embrace it, run it frequently, & get butts in seats: transitcosts.com/reports/

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Due to technical difficulties in tunnelling (the extension is almost 80% tunnelled) and rising costs, the Hokkaido Shinkansen Extension to Sapporo (2nd pic, red) will have it's opening to be delayed until 2039 at the earliest.

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

celebrating liberation day by singing an old timers tale…

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

The Scarborough Subway extension, a 600 million INT$/km underground subway project in suburban Toronto had the project's only tunnel boring machine inoperable for months and the government didn't officially tell anyone about it until now.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

People don't realize that quad-track high speed railway lines are quite common in China....

submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments

Massimo Vignelli vindication complete.

submitted 15 days ago • 8 comments

Yesterday, without much fanfare (no official inauguration), Naples inaugurated a much delayed (a standard for Naples) short extension of its metro line 1 to Centro Direzionale. The station serves a 1970-palnned edge business district and is shared with the Circumvesuviana railway.

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

When I was in Chengdu seems I missed a new metro line opening (as you typically do in China). Taiyuan Metro Line 1 opened on February 22, 2025. L1 is a fully underground 29km long line with 24 stations and uses 6 car Type A trains. Estimated to cost 190 million INT$/km to build...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment