China’s push for a 400km/h operational speed with the CR450 is impressive as a headline, but it ignores a fundamental rule of high-speed rail engineering: Just because you can reach a speed in a test doesn't mean you should operate there.The French (TGV) and Japanese (Shinkansen) pioneered ...

Another example of the government taking a small issue and blowing it out of proportion.The scheme only has one reason to remain. To encourage visitors to purchase in Australia instead of their home country, and to encourage Australians to purchase here instead of overseas.It has far more benefit...

At least Uber can pick up passengers. Try going to LAX. The application locks out the entire LAX airport and you have to walk 15 minutes outside of the airport boundary before you can use Uber.

Australia's travel demographics do make it viable. Remember that the flight route between Sydney and Melbourne accounts for more passengers than the 2 busiest routes in the US added together. Even Sydney to Brisbane is busier than the US's busiest flying route.

An interesting reason for the original higher Chinese speeds comes from fact that the original HSR was based on trains received from Japan. Typically Japan will benchmark and test their trains well above their operating speeds (e.g. N710 between Osaka and Hakata/Fukuoka to Kagashima was test for ...