• @[email protected]
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      92 months ago

      For comparision, in Berlin Germany there is currently an unnecessary and deeply unpopular inner city highway extension being built. It costs about €300 million per kilometer.

    • @NateNate60
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      It’s easy when you only pay workers five dollars a day, work them like mules for twelve hours a day, are building in the open desert, don’t need to do environmental impact surveys, and use cheap building materials and workmanship that starts to fall apart after ten years

  • @AbouBenAdhem
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    92 months ago

    Morocco is currently the only African nation with an operational high-speed rail system.

    I would have thought Egypt would be the perfect country for high-speed rail, with practically all of its population living along one line.

    • @mlg
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      22 months ago

      Yes but fun fact, maximized corruption.

  • @Twoafros
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    52 months ago

    This price is impossibly cheap even compared to other Chinese built trains in other African countries. Something must be off