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Japan did all of that. The chinaman wants to showoff and stole tech. Didnt end wellI don't understand the basis of building high speed rail.
Why not build something easier and need not travel so fast. As long as it benefits the people. People can move , goods and services can be provided. I think it suffice.
Then we can talk about more babies , more houses and you need infrastructure.
The thing now is completely nonsensical. You build ahead of demand and hope that infrastructure like roads, bridges , building, power station, petrol station and other things might follow. As a result, the costs start to rise even before the infrastructure start to spread.
Why do Indonesia need a high speed rail ? They are doing fine now. All they need is a proper planning and not a costly crap.
The people supporting the HSR are those house punters , real estate agents and real estate Company.
They see that when HSR is being build, people will stay around the HSR area more and causes the prices of house to go higher. It's not a bad idea. This happen to Singapore too when mrt is being build causing the value of property prices to rise. It benefitted Singapore because Singapore is so small. One mega mega project in Tampines, the economic effect will be felt in Jurong.
As for Indonesia, the bad planning, the sparsely populated and big country causes the effect to be "not so great". The property price surround the HSR did rise , but the effect is greatly muted.
Singapore is so obsessed in creating infrastructure to spin the economy. But it's just fucking waste of tax payers money.
Not enough enrolment , but enough land to build condo and houses.It raises the value of the land (gives SLA and real estate 'stakeholders' an erection), and creates business for developers and contractors. That's the name of the game.
Another sneaky tactic of theirs: they say not enough children to enrol, so some schools have to be merged or closed. For example, School A and School B merge, School A gets enbloc'ed and the school building gets upsized to accomodate more students. School B gets demolished... and you should already know what that piece of land gets used for.![]()