Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 22 hours agowhat do you mean "knock 25% off of that" (off what?) and "without cheating it becomes pretty obvious we're working with the same technology and fundamental logistics in this map"? sorry i'm just struggling to parse this
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 22 hours ago
Off of the remaining size of the Chengdu network after you correct for the other issues in OP’s representation.
Regardless of the ethnicity and mother tongue of the workers, smelting and extruding rebar, shipping it and pouring concrete around it is the same process. They can’t magically go faster over there, and the reason their labour seems cheaper on paper has to do with the West producing things they can’t (yet). If correctly presented, it would be pretty obvious it’s not apples-to-oranges like it looks in OP, I think.
I’m wondering WTF happened to Toronto line 3, though.
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 22 hours ago
Can you please "correctly present" what about the classic Chinese cookie-cutter metro technology is deficient and 25% behind Western technology?
For why Chinese metro construction seems apparently faster you can watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehTy-qQVZhM; it's just like them Cape Cod suburbs in North America.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 22 hours ago
I don’t have rail-specific knowledge here. It’s just generally how construction works in places like China or Laos. Many other things, too.
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 22 hours ago
Even if that is true, this is pristine underground rail!
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 17 hours ago
btw as mentioned below, line 3 was cut to make way for replacing it with a line 2 extension