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Friend from Germany came to visit me in HK. He read news on how Shenzhen turned from a village to a global tech hub. I told him about Huaqiangbei electronics market, his eyes lit up "Can they upgrade my ipad with more storage?" "Of course." I said, a🧵of our adventures last week.

Los Angeles was built on the backs of the (at the time) world's largest electric rail network. Which was so impressive Meiji-era Japanese came, studied and copied it back home, becoming the Japanese urban railways we know &amp; love today. Oh and then LA demolished their network.

Gyeonju, a city of 200,000 has a better bus network than 95% of North America.

It is 10PM August 12, 2030: You are driving your XPeng P7i 3rd Gen Wing Edition down the Gardener Expressway in Toronto or Autoroute Métropolitaine in Montréaln then a street legal BYD Yangwang U9 Xtreme shows up beside you...

Wild to look at IShowSpeed, one of N America's top streamers, react live when taking China's high speed rail: getting hype (1st vid), in doubt but then mind exploded (2nd vid), and converted to want travel by rail (3rd vid). Also...

Two of China's next generation CR450 series high speed train sets were spotted testing on the newly opened Chongqing-Qianjiang HSL last week. The CR450 series are planned to operate up to 400kph in revenue service on the Chongqing-Chengdu Central HSL.

A famous block of buildings in Akihabara is set to be redeveloped into a 170m office tower. meaning many classic shots of Akihabara will be completely different. In my video below all the buildings behind the Chuo-Sobu Viaduct will be gone.

Nobody: Random Chinese city foreigners have never heard about:

Ah yes the high speed railway system that carries over 9 million people per day is empty.

There seems to to be a recent micro trend this month in Chinese social media to overlay the BBC News countdown intro style to Chinese cities. Below in order is for Changsha, Dalian, Xiamen and Qingdao.

The Beijing Subway Line 1/Batong running the the median of the Beijing–Tongzhou Expressway is the better way.

I'm pretty sure an electric train is cheaper, safer and more sustainable than whatever Tesla is pumping out these days.

A long overdue thread of my experience on the Xiamen BRT, a 67km long fully grade separated BRT that carries over 300,000 people per day and wants to be a metro.

There seems to be a large uptick of N Americans going to Xiaohongshu and getting massive culture shock. Will seeing China's public transport content on Xiaohongshu (examples below) change their minds on what is possible with urban public transit and...

I was told elevated trains ruin neighbourhoods.

Today Nanjing Metro Line S2 opened. Pushing the 20 year old Nanjing Metro to over 625km in length. Line S2 is a suburban metro line that connects Nanjing with the neighbouring city of Ma'anshan. As such to better fulfill this role the line has passing loops for express services.

Tokyo: A station built in the 1920s that does not look like crap, feel like crap, is dirty as crap and runs like crap. New York: IMPOSSIBLE.

I thank him and we have coffee to celebrate (and not be rough with the phone), then take metro to a Chaoshan Hot Pot place for dinner and head back to HK.

I rode the KTM ETS (Electric trains service) Malaysia's meter gauge electric intercity to the north of KL. A thread of my thoughts and experience.

Funny that I can take a China Railways train from Chengdu, a massive Chinese megacity in a low lying basin; into a Himalayan valley over 3,000m above the sea level in 2 hours.

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In 2025, due to scheduling quirks, G156 needed to stop for 16 mins at Zaozhuang Station and let three trains serving faster stopping patterns to pass. Meaning if you took G156 you get non-stop Chinese HSR passing action, with 6 trains passing during those 16 mins.

A railfan at around 11:00PM captured a period on the Beijing-Guangzhou HSL where China Railways schedules a pack of 8 high speed sleeper trains heading to various destinations in south China from Beijing. Lead by an inspection train all 9 trains cleared this section in 2 hours.

Wild that throughout 2024 high speed trains in China carried 3.27 billion passengers. That's a daily ridership of almost 10 million people per day, on high speed trains alone.

Los Angeles was built on the backs of the (at the time) world's largest electric rail network. Which was so impressive Meiji-era Japanese came, studied and copied it back home, becoming the Japanese urban railways we know &amp; love today. Oh and then LA demolished their network.

I was told elevated rail ruins neighbourhoods.

My politics is whatever this is:

I was told elevated rail ruins neighbourhoods.

It started out 2 Fridays ago as a meme, last Friday it became a movement (now with detractors). Apparently around 600,000-400,000 people from all over China on Friday and Saturday night (Oct 8 and 9) came to Zhengzhou and sharebiked from Zhengzhou to Kaifeng to... (a thread)

Wild to look at IShowSpeed, one of N America's top streamers, react live when taking China's high speed rail: getting hype (1st vid), in doubt but then mind exploded (2nd vid), and converted to want travel by rail (3rd vid). Also...

I like how everything is called Japan yet I rode this train in Busan, South Korea. I even filmed this exact spot.

Houston does not even hold an LED candle to the Greater Bay Area.

My politics is whatever this is:

Taking the Shinkansen to Nagasaki, I got to experiance the "Relay" service to connect to the isolated Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen. All because a prefecture does not want a Shinkansen running through it.... (Lil thread)

There seems to to be a recent micro trend this month in Chinese social media to overlay the BBC News countdown intro style to Chinese cities. Below in order is for Changsha, Dalian, Xiamen and Qingdao.

I wonder what real cities do when they are hemmed in by water and mountains?

There seems to be a large uptick of N Americans going to Xiaohongshu and getting massive culture shock. Will seeing China's public transport content on Xiaohongshu (examples below) change their minds on what is possible with urban public transit and...

Does your station have a station inside it? KL Sentral does.

I love all the innovative furniture short videos a furniture seller from Jiangsu Prefecture (创意家具工厂-小海) posted on an app named after Japan's famous little red book.

Lanzhou, the birthplace of LaMian or Ramen as known in Japan. A dish invented by Chinese Muslims in Lanzhou using Halal ingredients. The noodles（Mian 面) are handmade on site by pulling (La 拉). The dish was brought over to Japan in the late 19th century and modified into Ramen.

Last week a new pilot high speed freight service with trains operating up to 350kph began between Guangzhou and Wuhan. High speed freight services have been running in a trial basis across China with services between Kunming-Chengdu, Zhengzhou-Chongqing, Nanchang-Shenzhen etc.

Los Angeles was built on the backs of the (at the time) world's largest electric rail network. Which was so impressive Meiji-era Japanese came, studied and copied it back home, becoming the Japanese urban railways we know & love today. Oh and then LA demolished their network.

Los Angeles was built on the backs of the (at the time) world's largest electric rail network. Which was so impressive Meiji-era Japanese came, studied and copied it back home, becoming the Japanese urban railways we know & love today. Oh and then LA demolished their network.