Actually, the funny thing is, in my experience in both China and the United States, I noticed that the US has no safey barriers while China actually does. The first few yesrs of my life in the US, I had a phobia of falling onto the tracks so I basically just hug the wall. There are some stations where there are tracks on both sides and the station is in the middle, I hate those. No safety barriers really sucks.
Although, I got to say, the “Tofu-dreg construction” is a big problem in China. Luckily, I’ve neven fallen in to an escalator platform in the years I was there. Food safety tho, that’s probably an even bigger problem, its a common issue that I remember my mom always talked about. The government sucks at enforcing food safety (I’m not sure if they even had food safety laws).
caboose2006@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Probably most if not all. Despite some well publisized failures these big government transit projects tend to be pretty good. It’s amazing how fast you can get things done if you don’t care about zoning, the environment, money, worker conditions or safety.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
(American) zoning (besides industrial/residential) is bullshit anyway.
Just give me the three major industrial, mixed residential/commercial and some small purely residential zones and be done with it.
No need to basically outlaw a business in a residential area.