The Economist: Why Japans high-speed trains are so good Many countries seem obsessed with high-speed rail. On June 4th in the Queens speech, the opening of the British parliament for 2014-15, the government confirmed its commitment to a controversial high-speed link known as HS2. France is slowly expanding its high-speed lines (known as the TGV) while other countries, such as Spain and China, are rapidly enlarging their networks of whizzy trains. Japans high-speed bullet train is often held up as an exemplar by rail boosters and governments keen to acquire their own shiny new train-sets. How did Japan come to be the world leader in high-speed trains? economist/blogs/economist-explains/2014/06/economist-explains-7
Posted on: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 08:16:45 +0000
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