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Soon, Macaulay’s perspective was vindicated by the dawn of the railway age.
The Ottoman Empire raised funds from pious Muslims (and brought in German technicians) to lay a railway from Damascus to Medina.
Today’s “coin mania” is not unlike the railway mania at the dawn of the industrial revolution in the mid-nineteenth century.
As for most of the coins, they are little different from railway stocks in the 1840s, which went bust when that bubble – like most bubbles – burst.
Canceled railway and hydroelectric projects in Myanmar, and riots in Vietnam over China’s move to drill for oil in disputed waters, reflect the backlash that the country’s resource hunger can generate.
French business, moreover, dominates most of the country’s infrastructure: Bolloré controls the port of Abidjan and the railway;Bouygues oversees Ivorian construction projects;Total holds one-quarter of the shares of the country’s oil refinery;France Telecom is the main shareholder of the landline and mobile telephone network;Société Générale and BNP-Paribas control the banking industry; and Air France controls the sky.
Indeed, such spending is decided at the local and regional level, where grass-roots opposition to any large project is strongest (it took more than 20 years, for example, to push through the modernization of Stuttgart’s railway station).
Europe has its own Tea Party crackpots who loathe the welfare state and want it abolished or radically pared, and who are convinced that all state-sponsored capital spending is a “boondoggle” – just so many roads, bridges, and railway lines to nowhere that soak up their money in corruption and inefficiency.
China, meanwhile, has been building all-weather roads, railway lines, and even airports on its side of the LAC.
Worse, China has been using the cover of the COVID-19 crisis to pursue politically controversial economic deals, such as a Chinese-financed Belgrade-Budapest railway plan that was smuggled through Hungary’s legislature as a part of its COVID-19 emergency package.
In the 1980s and 1990s, for example, China grew much faster than India despite having a shorter railway network.
Clearly, the reform would require the gradual elimination of special pension plans, which currently allow some railway employees to retire ten years earlier than most other workers.
We invested in new hospitals and roads, and closed loss-making railway lines.
For example, construction is nearly complete on a railway line through Kenya’s famous Nairobi National Park, despite public outrage over an “incomplete and incompetent” environmental impact assessment.
In the business-to-business sector, railway companies like Norfolk Southern and CSX have recently adopted “precision-scheduled railroading” to pack more containers onto trains, reducing the need for more departures.
China is now financing a $3.9 billion railway project between Abuja and the Nigerian coast, a $7 billion rail link between Lagos and Kano, and several road projects, including a trans-Sahara highway connecting Nigeria with five other countries.
At their peak in the nineteenth century, railway interests held sway over many or perhaps even most members of the British parliament.
India is converting 5,000 railway coaches into isolation wards, and its celebrated Taj Hotels in Mumbai are being used to house frontline medical workers who need to remain in quarantine between shifts.
If a new railway line opens, will local bus timetables change to coordinate people’s journeys?
For example, the “Big Four” California railway tycoons (Leland Stanford, Collis Huntington, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker) controlled not just freight rates but also the state legislature.
In fact, Iran is already reportedly forcing India out of a railway project that bypasses Pakistan to connect with Afghanistan and Central Asia.
During the last decade, for example, the country has built a high-speed railway network of more than 35,000 kilometers (21,748 miles).
Furthermore, the freight railway to Europe from China’s west and southwest, and the “new land-sea channel” to the south, will not only boost the mainland Chinese economy but also help to stabilize global supply chains.
As part of this initiative, China pursued large-scale infrastructure investments, such as building nearly 30,000 kilometers (18,600 miles) of high-speed railway.
Increased connectivity – last year alone, that railway network carried nearly two billion passengers – facilitated much closer regional economic ties, propelled urbanization, and enhanced consumption substantially.
In the event, the railway plan seems to have been informed more by German ambition than by realities on the ground.
Labour will need to remember that “normal” people want a TransPennine railway much more than a transgender future.
As usual, after the inquiry as to what priced rooms they desired, it turned out that there was not a single good room vacant: one good room was occupied by a railway inspector, another by a lawyer from Moscow, a third by the Princess Astafyeva from the country.
They have to learn too, and so must you, sir!Go along!'On entering the schoolroom, instead of sitting down to his lessons, Serezha told his tutor of his guess that the parcel that had been brought must be a railway train.
Malthus was a well-known railway magnate.
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