It took the PA state government and their union workers five years to add an extra lane in each direction on the Northeast Extension totaling 12 miles. If SEPTA was tasked to build a new railway station it would take a year of planning, a year in court over the lawsuit from environmentalists to protect the rare brown spotted rat, and another year to construct the station at a leisurely pace. And it would come in 50% over the original budget, which was already 40% higher due to union labor requirements and bribes to corrupt politicians.
A train station was built in just nine hours by 1,500 workers in China.
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Organised with military precision, the project which reportedly took place over the weekend, was completed in the southern Fujian Province.
Seven trains and 23 diggers were used in the huge construction project at the Nanlong Railway Station in the south China city of Longyan, the Xianhua News Agency reported.
Workers were split into seven units to take on seven simultaneous tasks, according to Zhan Daosong, a deputy manager at China Tiesiju Civil Engineering Group, the communist country’s main railroad construction company.
The high-speed Nanlong Railway line is under construction and is expected to be completed by the end of 2018.
Around 152 miles long, it will provide a main transport link between the south-east of the country and central China.
The railway is designed to support trains travelling at speeds of up to 124 mph.
The project is one of series of impressive infrastructure projects completed by China in recent years.
Measuring 500 metres in diameter, the radio telescope is nestled in a natural basin within a stunning landscape of lush green karst formations.
It took five years and $£129m to complete and surpasses that of the 300-meter Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, a dish used in research on stars that led to a Nobel Prize.
The country has also completed the Tianhuangping hydroelectric project, which is the biggest in Asia and plays a vital role in supplying power to eastern China and The Guangzhou Opera House, one of its three biggest theatres was opened in 2009.
The interstates around Minneapolis were designed about in 1960 – when it was ‘fly-over’ country. With the increased population they are a mess – but MNDOT does nothing.
Case in point: a suburban route is Route 100 – about 12 miles in length. It has taken from 1980 to 2016 to expand this road to 3 lanes, and remove the stoplights.
Twin Cities has become somewhat of a shit hole. It starts with areas that are bad, then spreads – and it’s spread. We and many others we know used to go there for an occasional weekend – besides the somali’s, it’s just slid into another metro…..with beautiful green spaces, ponds, and lakes to offset the decay. Went to school there – where I lived is now ‘downtown somali-ville’, and it was dark as fuck back then! True shame. Looks like St. Cloud isn’t far behind.
We moved to Minneapolis in 1978. Being a Comp Sci / Engr guy – it was great – lot of tech companies and start-ups. That’s all a thing of the past.
Unfortunately, this small bedroom town, morphed into a Liberal Hell Hole – every elected representative is a Leftist / Demorat. It’s sickening to see all the Somali’s. And the Minneapolis Red Star news rag is nauseating to read.
What I witnessed between 1978 and 1995 was that there became two Minneapolis’s – the ‘down town’ and the rest of us poor bastards that pay property taxes. Everything is about ‘down town’ – there’s nothing there but some theaters and over priced restaurants. All the stores are gone.
North Minneapolis is brown town. Usually about 30 murders a year – but it’s nicely contained by freeways. South Minneapolis is a white lower class ultra-liberal / socialist worker / low achiever type of place. Older single family homes that haven’t been maintained in 50 years.
I am fortunate to live on a small lake, just inside the Minneapolis boarder. We live about 3 minutes to a freeway entrance. The first thing we do is get out of Minneapolis when we want to buy or do anything.
Tommy is correct – the place has gone to shit. There are no Home Depot’s or Lowes or CostCo’s or car dealers or paint stores (I could go on and on) – all of them are in the suburbs.
But TPTB in Minneapolis like to suck Somali cock.
looks like they’re still headed your way, Dutch.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2018/01/illegal-aliens-quietly-relocated-throughout-u-s-commercial-flights/
Dutch,
Both Minneapolis, and much of Minnesota, slowly turned to shit because they have always had the highest % of women voters. A true fact.
Scandinavian women have the viking berserker spirit of utter chaos and destruction in their genes. That is why, with a straight face, they could send Al Franken to represent the State and think it perfectly reasonable.
You should consider crossing the St. Croix. Wisconsin is the best kept secret in the Midwest.
Edit: I have a daughter, an Elementary school teacher who lives in Edina. When I witnessed the half-decade project to add just a single extra lane to 494, I said: “If you’re going to all this trouble then you should add two extra lanes”. Now that it’s done, after years of inconvenience for the commuters, they are thinking they need another lane.
There actually is a Home Depot in Mpls. It’s over Nordeast way off 35W and Stinson. That’s not to say I don’t disagree with a thing you say…and why I live in the suburbs. It’s not a whole lot better in the western burbs when it comes to the liberals but the ‘hood is better kept, the property taxes lower and the streets get plowed in a timely manner. Minneapolis hasn’t yet fallen to the depths of Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore or Philly…but they are trying their hardest to catch up.
It is sickening to see TPTB and the media – all sucking Super Bowl cock. It’s like the 2nd coming of Christ. What a joke – closing off many public streets. And the leftist’s masterpiece – the Light Rail – designed to move Somali’s and Neegrows – to share their love and rob people in new neighborhoods. Yes – they are shutting down the Light Rail (the people’s Light Rail) and you can only ride it if you have a Stupid Bowl ticket! Oh the horror.
I hope we have a blizzard and -20 temps.
Headline in 2020.
Train Station in China has collapsed with massive loss of life.
One thing about China – all those guys working – they don’t get entitlements there.
As it’s made in China, it’ll likely fall apart in about nine hours.
Chinese Ghost Cities:
https://www.google.com/search?q=chinese+ghost+cities&rlz=1C1CAFB_enUS624US625&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjoibqduPPYAhVG34MKHbtlBXoQ_AUICigB&biw=1463&bih=851
Chinese Apartment Buildings fall over because of insufficient or no foundation at all:
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CAFB_enUS624US625&biw=1463&bih=851&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=Q_lpWtb-BOTVjwTh7K7oBA&q=chinese+apartment+building+falls+over&oq=chinese+aparment&gs_l=psy-ab.1.2.0i13k1l9j0i13i5i30k1.45846.48466.0.50803.8.8.0.0.0.0.83.471.8.8.0….0…1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.7.414…0j0i8i13i30k1.0.7xsEXjUrcQw
The US was once like this. Trump noted the Empire State Building went up in a year. Of course they called it the ‘Empty State Building’ too since it went up in 1931 and not even being the world’s tallest building could attract tenants. In WW2 Kaiser built in complete Liberty ship in a day to show they could do it but most took a couple of weeks to assemble.
One wonders though if these HSR projects aren’t white elephants. California has spent two decades on one and it doesn’t have a single mile of operational track. It may serve Japan well but Japan has over 3 times California’s population with less land and railroads are 19th century technology. California may save a lot of money because it couldn’t build Jerry Brown’s backward looking project quickly. Americans, if given a choice prefer to commute by car not public transit and self driving cars, Eric Peters reservations not withstanding, will go someway to reducing gridlock as highways become more efficient. Given the cost of subways and light rail systems it may make more sense to build more parking lots than public transit but municipal governments make money by keeping parking scarce so they don’t.
China is run by engineers. America is run by lawyers.
To me, that explains everything.
“China is run by engineers. America is run by lawyers”
That actually explains a great deal of the differences between China and the US. Here, you have a right to a lawyer if arrested. If you are arrested in China, your family won’t hear from you until if/when you are released. And even in the US, if you’re falsely arrested, try asking an engineer to file a writ of habeas corpus on you behalf.
Marsh, my good man. You are comparing China to the US of the past where the law and Constitutional rights meant something. Those days are long, long gone.
Does anyone know if, prior to the automobile, people were required to have a carriage or horse operators permit and display a license plate on their horse or carriage to use them on city streets?
I’m not opposed to a registering a conveyance and having to pay a tax on its use but where did this notion that people need a license to use public streets for travel come from?
People have been charging tolls on roads for millenia. It’s not quite as formal as what we have today but variations are as old as the wheel.
We have problems, but the US is still far ahead of the PRC when it comes to rights. In China, the accused has a right to counsel, but not free counsel unless he’s a juvenile, blind, deaf, or facing the death penalty. Hiring counsel presents two problems, one-very few can afford it, and 2-you have no right to contact your family, or anyone else. And if your family inquires, they have no obligation to say you are in custody. A bigger problem is to get a license to practice, every attorney in China must swear a loyalty oath to the Chinese Communist Party.
Every day, in courts all over the US, attorneys get clients released due to Fourth Amendment violations, denial of right to counsel, custodial interrogation violations, writs of habeas corpus, etc. None of that matters in the PRC.
Last numbers I saw indicated there were fewer than 400,000 lawyers in China, serving a population of 1.379 billion. We have more lawyers in the US because we demand a lot more from our legal system. For example, try filing a civil rights case in Beijing because the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party violated your right to free speech. Like Tank Man, you might never be heard from again. Also, the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre had no legal representation or recourse. The Chinese government excludes the event from text books, and when pressed, refers to them only as “violent counterrevolutionary elements”.
http://www.hrichina.org/en/mass-crackdown-chinese-lawyers-and-defenders
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You know what had tanks involved here?
When the FBI burned a church and killed dozens of old men, women and children over fake ATF charges.***
How ’bout dem human rights?
*** One of the snipers on overwatch was the same one that shot a woman holding a baby in the face a year before over more ATF entrapment charges.
I am from China. Many wealthy (and not so wealthy) Chinese try to leave China for US. Why?
1. They think that there are still human rights in US;
2. There are indeed more human rights here in US. It is much worse in China, even after huge improvements since 1978 (when Deng Xiaoping opened China to the world).
There is no tradition with democracy and human rights in Chinese history and culture. Many past rulers were as brutal as current Communists, if not more.
Right to a lawyer in the us? Buwahahahahahahahahahaha….
“Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to…have the assistance of counsel for his defense.”
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/sixth_amendment
Gideon v. Wainwright 372 U.S. 335 (1963)
“From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to assure fair trials before impartial tribunals in which every defendant stands equal before the law. This noble ideal cannot be realized if the poor man charged with crime has to face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him.”
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/372/335
Does it concern you when the FedGov has over a 95% conviction rate, all lawyers belong to the same organization, and judges’ retirements rely on payments made by the convicted?
“…try asking an engineer to file a writ of habeas corpus on you behalf.”
Soon enough most of you lawyer fucks will be replaced by AI anyway.
if you think the lawyer will do you any good, you are smoking something.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/11/24/the-single-chart-that-shows-that-grand-juries-indict-99-99-percent-of-the-time/?utm_term=.3cf10baa166d
and once you are indicted, their conviction rat is 99.8% lot of good that lawyer does you
and thats if you are lucky and the police don’t shoot you on the spot.
and china has 5 times as many people as the US and 1/2 as many people in prison . so we have 10 x the incarceration rate. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/uk/06/prisons/html/nn2page1.stm
I think I’ll take the engineers.
China is NOT a free country. And don’t tell me you didn’t know that! It’s easy to motivate a work force that lives in fear of being sent to the mines or “re-education”. If that sounds like the society you want, then emigrate. But if you try to bring that crap here, myself and I suspect many others on TBP will stand in your way. Below are two photo I took in China: one shows their disregard for worker safety, and the other shows their “strict” building and electrical codes. No thank you.
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Marsh, anywhere they look the other way for illegals you have those spiderwebs of do it yourself electrical death traps. Trying to figure out the worker safety issue in the other pic. What exactly are those guys doing?
People are motivated to work hard in China mostly not by force, but due to lack of social/welfare programs. Nothing motivates people more than to bring food onto the table. Economically, China is very capitalist; politically, China is faschist now and was communist decades ago.
Most welfare and social programs discourage people from working hard, at least in the long run.
China definately is not free, but freer now than in the past.
I see a lot of similarities between the Great Cultural Revolution and the current Left ideologies in the West (identity politics, feminism etc.). No surprise here, both comminism and identity politics are from some Jewish thinkers (or more accurately, some Jewish culture and humanity destroyers).
I still highly value and enjoy the little freedom left here in the Western world. Better enjoy it now because it is disappearing very quickly.
“Economically, China is very capitalist”
No, they’re not. Political power in China is held by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, and they believe they are using the economic engine of capitalism to launch the perfect socialist state.
“due to lack of social/welfare programs”
Actually, the whole country is a vast social welfare program. That’s the nature of communism.
“People are motivated to work hard in China mostly not by force”
The threat of force is ever-present in China (see: Tiananmen Square).
I am only a chemist without sound understanding of politics and economics (trying hard now). However, Chinese is my mother language. I have close family members and friends there. I visit China regularly. I have fairly decent understanding of Chinese history and culture. I have keen interest in Chinese matters. I observe and think a lot with open mind. I have been truly amazed of the rapid development in China, both political and economical.
Some here write really well and are highly intelligent. Years ago, I would have been mislead by this, but not now. Why? Not due to their wrong opinions, but opinions based on inaccurate facts or complete imaginations.
I live in Detroit. , want to tour some of our buildings to see the excellence? http://places.designobserver.com/feature/motor-city-breakdown-detroit-in-literature-and-film/37840/
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Years ago my #1 son was a student living in a flat near the college.
UMn ie.
The house was too chaotic and noisy and he moved to attic
space, not well heated. He was not and is not any soy boy.
The day after he left, the apt. was stormed by gang members
demanding their money/money for drugs. The men/boys
present were severely beaten, duct taped as restraint and put/
stuffed into a closet. The crooks had the wrong apartment.
OMG, life goes FAST, that occurred 24yrs. ago.
My sister-in-law lives in St. Paul. Her church devotes it’s
upscale resources to providing for Somali immigrants.
The new residents have essentially no resources, and depend
on the state and private charity to live and survive. It is as
though the immigrants have been “adopted” by the community.
Is this a good thing, or is the community going to be doomed
through their generosity?
providing for Somali immigrants. The new residents have essentially no resources
Well they all have iPhones and they are on them constantly. Somali’s are subhumans and belong back in their 3rd world shithole of a country.
Somalis come in three flavors. There is the destitute refugee, the terrorist and the pirate.
#2: I have not been to China, but I have seen the slide shows
of some that have been. Those came from teacher exchange
programs sponsored by gov. I provided transportation and
support for a retired teacher group member.
I am really very very sick of seeing “made in china” logos and
stamped in letters on near everything I purchase anywhere.
I am really happy and smile wide when I see USA on an item.
Much made in china stuff is crap that doesn’t last whatsoever.
Thus, “shopping” in a resale store for gently used, even unused,
items has been my new practice. Absolutely gives a price advantage
as well.
I might guess the product produced in China that is not going to be exported to the US is better quality than the quality which we Americans are used to seeing in Chinese products. Just a guess.
Several months ago I was on a plane from Dallas to Boise, Idaho. It stopped in Denver and picked up several Somalis who were given bulkhead seats. The group included a very pregnant woman with 3 pint-sized boys who were clutching her very colorful native dress. She had another infant in a sling on her back. The stewardesses (yes, I am that old) were fawning over them the entire trip.
Once in Boise, I saw Somalis all over the place in their native garb, including tall headdresses. They were very evident in several places where I shopped, including a grocery store. I went there to buy some steaks for my son’s military family who considers steaks a treat that they can’t afford with their meager military income. At the checkout. just ahead of me, was a Somalian with a basket piled high with steaks, lobster and a case of Coca Cola. She paid with a welfare card that I recognized.
Wake up Americans!
The funny part of the gooberment system is the racial set asides. Had a road a number of years ago in Orangeburg county that was widened by a black company per racial set aside contracts. They fucked it up so bad another firm had to be hired ( white folks ) in order to fix it. My best friend was the States engineer over-seeing the project. He said it was the largest fuck up by uneducated monkeys he’d ever seen.
Another bud from Louisiana said back in the 70’s,80’s and 90’s the black firms would bid on state contract with huge bids knowing they’d get 10% of the contracts. When they’d win one they’d sub-contract out to the lowest bidder and pocket the difference .
The gooberment only does one thing well….FUCKING UP !
It got got built fast but I’m betting that in three years or less the place will be crumbling. That’s not defending the time it takes to complete infrastructure projects here in the US. Our problem is corrupt unions that bend us over and rape us at first world rates+++ for infrastructure comparable to turd world standards with commensurate longevity. The building code inspectors are just as corrupt as the unions.
There’s a comedian that made a song called orange barrels which makes fun of the fact that local highway construction never ends. The premise (as described by the comedian on the show) is that the hwy dept just doesn’t have any place to store all those orange barrels and cones so they just move ’em from place to place on the highways making the sheep think that progress is being made when in actuality they’re just storing the fucking orange barrels.
Reality is that the orange barrels never go away because by the time they finish mile 12 of a project that have to restart construction one mile 1 because of shoddy, substandard work.
Very funny. Those 20 foot “merge” lanes these fucking DOT clowns Larry, Darryl and Darryl create for traffic entering the highway through the cones are nothing short of criminally negligent. Almost lost my life in Texas once with a setup like that.
“Organised with military precision” – I would say they did a FAR BETTER JOB THAN THAT!