I guess this is the future YIMBYs want.

The Shinkansen allows for video game directors to get around the country.

Hong Kong buses on Saturday be like.

Oh I forgot to mention, with the opening of Chengdu Metro Line 10 Phase 3 South and Line 17 Phase 2, the 14 year old Chengdu Metro is now 660km long. Being the 4th longest metro system in the world....

With the imminent opening of the Guangzhou-Foshan East Regional Rail Ring. Railfans have been eagerly drawing maps showing the stopping patterns of the nascent emerging Guangzhou regional railway system. Below is in the style of Japan by あきはばら. Opening prep pics by🍟🍔🍦...

Yesterday 2 metro lines just opened Chengdu Metro Line 17 Phase 2 and Line 10 Phase 3 South. Line 17 Phase 2 is a 28km fully underground crosstown city center express line. Line 10 phase 3 South extends a suburban metro line entering the city center. A small (not my) picture🧵...

Fuzhou Metro Line F1 or Binhai Express Line, a high speed metro line that connects Fuzhou city center with it's airport. Line F1 is slated to open in October so in the meantime here is the unveiled local and express stopping patterns for the line.

The Anglo transit construction cost disease python strikes again. Gold Coast in Australia cancelled partly due to NIMBYism partly due to ballooning costs, a 13km tramway should not cost 5.7-9.8 BILLION AUD to build. That's 320-520 million INT$/km to build or in other words...

I know I have three series of multipart longform articles that are missing their last parts. (links to first parts in next post) I promise I am working hard on finishing them. The amount of parallel long form articles I have cooking makes me feel like a bánh xèo chef:

Metrolinx claims that they can't reintroduce express trains on the Lakeshore East line since the 3rd track is out of service. That's a lie: most of the 3rd track is still in service and there's room for express trains ontariotrafficman.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/go-transit-lies-about-express-trains/

This report makes clear just how deep the hubris of Biden-era climate champions was in proclaiming the IRA various versions of "the largest climate action ever." The Biden administration never even considered anything on the scale of what China has been doing — both abroad and at home.

Subscribers asked for it, here are some of my thoughts on an article about the CRH system by an 85 year old Chinese economic geographer, 陆大道. I'll be blunt, people who cite 陆大道's article at face value against the concept of HSR don't know anything about transport planning.

This mirrors China being a forerunner in regulating video game gacha and loot box mechanics (showing percent chance, pity system, limits to spending) ahead of Japan and United States, the latter which essentially became cesspools of unregulated online gambling.

Changtai Yangtze River Bridge opened today. The two 352m tall cable stayed towers make it the tallest bridge structural height in the world, surpassing the structural height of the tallest Millau Viaduct pier.

The Fuzhou-Putian-Ningde regional railway system F2 and F3 lines starting preliminary pre-construction and geological survey works. F2 and F3 lines is a 200kph line that connects the China Railway network to Fuzhou Changle Int Airport.

Ningbo Metro Line 7 opened last month (29 Aug 2025). Line 7 is a 40km 25 station crosstown line. The line uses 6 car Type B trains running up to 100kph and is estimated to cost 210 million INT$/km to construct. The 11 year old Ningbo Metro is now 262km long.

Infrastructure, China-style: construction starts on Zhengzhou 89 mile BRT in Feb 2009; complete in May 2009.

Yesterday, Shanghai Metro put out an experimentally modified Line 9 train with some seats removed in a bid to increase capacity. Shanghai Line 9 is one of the busiest metro lines in China with trains coming every 1 min 50 sec (32 TPH) during the AM rush moving 58,600 pax/hour/direction in 2024....

The metro system must grow. Nanjing Metro growth in 20 years. From a humble 22km single line in 2005 to the 7th longest metro system in the world at 557km by 2025. An additional 250km of metro under construction.

SEPTA Sino-American Friendship Station (formerly Spring Garden Station) circa 2035. New underground high speed metro line platforms were constructed and served by 160kph metro trains reaching Glassboro, Grenloch, King of Prussia, West Chester and Wilmington in 30 mins, departing every 3 mins each.

i like the spirit of this, but if we were worried about China making us look bad, we probably would’ve built high speed rail by now

Wait, an entire metro system can just suddenly be unusable?

Patient zero for the globalized system of project delivery is Hong Kong, under FILTHs. This got reimported to the UK in the 1990s, because the Thatcherites and consensus post-Thatcherites worshiped Hong Kong and Singapore.

BBC News countdown intro style meme continues in China. Below is Chongqing (1/5).

Excited for Malaysia to complete the extension of it's electric intercity service to Johor Bahru/Singapore by the end of the year. The service will cut train travel times in half using CRRC narrow gauge EMUs and connect to the cross border RTS link to Singapore.

2025 summer season has ended and average workday ridership of the Guangzhou Metro during this period now exceeds 10 million trips/day. Average daily ridership during this period for Line 3, Line 2 and Line 5 is 1.79 million, 1.16 million and 1.01 million trips/day respectively.

That is about the cost of construction for the entire existing and under construction Chengdu Metro network. Chengdu Metro opened in 2010 and by 2025 is a 633km long system. The metro system is expected to reach 1,065km before 2035

Still having fun with this, this time the SG-KL HSR. The model's border crossing assumptions are quite punitive. Ridership would double if Malaysia-S'pore was modelled as a domestic connection. Judging how Hong Kong to Mainland China's HSR link is averaging over 80,000 people per day....

Continuing to have fun with this. This time it is Vietnam's proposed North–South Express Railway or Đường sắt cao tốc Bắc-Nam. Estimated to have 175-225 trains per day. Assumed 8 car CR400 trains running up to 350kph and Chinese fare rates.

Jinan Metro Line 4 and 8 has started undergoing dynamic testing yesterday. Line 4 is a fully underground 40km 33 station crosstown line that cuts thru downtown Jinan. Line 8 is a 25km 14 station mostly elevated suburban line. Both lines use 6 car Type A trains.

I had a lot of fun with this.

Guangzhou Metro offering trial rides to media on Line 14 Phase 2 yesterday. Line 14 Phase 2 is 12 km long with 8 stations and will open this year. The extension plunges the suburban radial Line 14 deeper into central Guangzhou. However the last section to Guangzhou Railway...

New Hangzhou trolleybus model C12E built by Geely is being tested right now late into the night in Hangzhou. Pictures by LJCVIP_.

What a continent spanning high speed railway system can achieve.

. China has EVs under $30k that outperform anything our car companies sell. We’ll never see them here because decades of policy prioritized oil profits over real innovation. That’s the real cost of ‘drill baby drill.’ 🥴 #Capitalism #EV #China .

This week (August 26, 2025) Shenzhen turned 45 years young. Below are two pictures of approximately the same area I found and put together.

Today the first batch of new Shenzhen Metro Line 5 train sets started operating. This will bring the number of trainsets available for Line 5 during peak hours to 62 6 car Type A sets. AM peak hour frequency is reduced to almost every 2 mins.

CRH6 regional trains on the Changsha–Zhuzhou–Xiangtan Regional Line. Pictures by Mi德

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 (1/4)...

Hangzhou Metro Hangde Line trains being manufactured. The Hangde Line is a 26km long 9 station suburban extension of Hangzhou Metro Line 10 to neighboring Dezhou city. The line, Llike LIne 10 uses 6 car Type A trains running up to 120kph.

Track work being done at Bainikeng Station on the fully underground Shenzhen-Dapeng Regional Line. The line uses 8 car trains that reach 160kph. The gap on the right is for the passing track for express services. The Shenzhen-Dapeng Regional Line is a E-W crosstown express line north of Shenzhen.

Shenzhen Metro testing new Line 5 trains throughout August. The new trains has gold accents in the ends of the train to compliment the purple paint scheme. Taken by Gok角子.

Good to see progress on the new underground regional railway terminus for the Guangzhou–Shenzhen ICR at 3AM this morning. Guangzhou–Shenzhen ICR will connect Hong Kong's Huanggang Port beyond to Western Shenzhen, Humen, Dongguan and Guangzhou.

Last week, JR-W announced it's reserve seat service "Ureseat" is being expanded to more Kansai regional network lines this Oct. With services rolling out to select rapid service runs on the Hanwa and Tozai/Gakkentoshi/Takarazuka Lines. How "Ureseat" is implemented is (lil🧵)...

Guangzhou Metro looking pretty congested this morning rush hour.

Chengdu Metro Line 17 Phase 2 Provincial Orthopedic Hospital Station getting ready for end of year opening. Line 17 uses 8 car Typ A+ trains operating up to 140 kph. Phase 2 is 25km long with 18 stations and brings Line 17 underground into Chengdu's city center.

When you build things at a low (per kilometer) unit costs, you tend to have more of it.

HONG KONG, HONG KONG, HK, Hong Kong, HONG KONG, HK? That’s one of my favorite airports!

Johor Bahru–Singapore Rapid Transit System (RTS) 2: Electric Boogaloo.

Hefei Metro Line S1 trains under testing. Picture by 兔老司