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Country 1 has more telephones, and Country 1 has a longer system of railways.
Country 1, that has a longer system of railways, is actually India.
In developing countries, the most common mode of transportation is the railways, and the British built a lot of railways in India.
India is the smaller of the two countries, and yet it had a longer system of railways until the late 1990s.
[Michael Bierut on the London Tube Map] The London Underground came together in 1908, when eight different independent railways merged to create a single system.
First, the Industrial Revolution brought us machines and factories, railways, electricity, air travel, and our lives have never been the same.
The skeleton is the transportation system of roads and railways, bridges and tunnels, air and seaports that enable our mobility across the continents.
This ever-expanding infrastructural matrix already consists of 64 million kilometers of roads, four million kilometers of railways, two million kilometers of pipelines and one million kilometers of Internet cables.
In North America, the lines that matter most on the map are not the US-Canada border or the US-Mexico border, but the dense network of roads and railways and pipelines and electricity grids and even water canals that are forming an integrated North American union.
A similar phenomenon is underway in East Africa, where a half dozen countries are investing in railways and multimodal corridors so that landlocked countries can get their goods to market.
But why? Was it the invention of telephones or the expansion of the railways?
A little less glossy than recent US horrors (Amityville Horror remake, House of Wax remake) this dark and gruesome tale follows Kate (Franka Potente) through the labyrinth of underground tunnels and disused railways as she, and a number of others along the way, try and flee a murderous attacker.
Poetical depiction of the seemingly endless railways are reminiscent of the long and hard life.
Premier Hashimoto went some way to allaying Russian fears here by promising to assist in improving Siberian railways and other transport systems.
And the invasion destroyed China’s roads, railways, and factories.
The Ethiopian government went on a spending spree, building roads, railways, power plants, and an agricultural extension system that significantly enhanced productivity in rural areas, where most of the poor reside.
Some of these were driven by demand, food production for example, and many of the most revolutionary were supported by well-designed government policy, such as the construction of railways and the rapid development of mobile telephony.
Many public utilities in China – such as airlines, railways, ports, and telecommunications – are single-product entities administered by state-owned enterprises (SOEs).
Of course, such a strategy will require highways, bridges, railways, and seaports.
Ideological aversion to public-sector investment, together with the endemic short-term thinking of those who write budgets, has kept spending on roads, airports, railways, telecommunication networks, and power generation at levels far below what is needed.
Every new major technological idea – the steam engine, railways, or the personal computer – adds up to a boost to growth.
But India's railways still produce other mind-boggling figures: 23 million passengers are transported daily (over eight billion per year, more than the world's entire population) on 12,617 trains connecting 7,172 stations across a 65,000-kilometer (40,000-mile) network.
And, with 1.31 million employees, the railways are the country's biggest enterprise.
In short, the railways are the lifeblood of India's economy, touching the lives of every segment of society and playing a key role in moving people, freight, and dreams across a congested landscape.
By contrast, China's railways carry five times as much freight as India's, even though China has a far better road network.
But perhaps the biggest problem is how dangerous the railways are.
As a result, the railways run out of money before running out of plans.
In the last 30 years, only 317 of 676 projects sanctioned by Parliament have been completed, and it is difficult to imagine how the railways will acquire the estimated $30 billion needed to complete the remaining 359 projects.
And if all of this were not bad enough, India's leadership seems not to recognize the challenges that the railways present.
Though, unlike his predecessors, he has resisted the temptation to announce any new trains, his plans for India's railways remain inadequate.
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