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Britain is building one of the world’s most expensive railways

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61 points peutetre | 1 comments | 20 Nov 24 13:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.281s | source
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rado ◴[20 Nov 24 15:48 UTC] No.42194985[source]▶
Perspective: China has 45 000 km of high speed rail, while the UK is struggling to build 500.
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1. netsharc ◴[20 Nov 24 17:09 UTC] No.42196023[source]▶
and China has 9326410 sqkm of land while the UK is 243610 sqkm, i.e. the UK is 2.6% the size of China.

2.6% of 45000 is 1170.