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David Franklin

Posted 2010-03-28 03:43 (#60)
Subject: Did China learn nothing

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8538221.stm

They had more than fifty years living their own way, to sit back and watch the effects of Capitalism. To see the mistakes the USA was making by becoming a car culture. The car dependency of building endless roads and suburbs. Separating Home from Work from Retail.
But the first chance they get they don't show the USA how it should be done they simply make the same mistakes.
But where it took the USA over 60 years, China does it in less than 10 years.

http://www.streetfilms.org/seattles-link-light-rail-the-start-of-so...

Why couldn't they have looked a city like Seattle and thought "Light rail? That's what we need." ?

Agric

Posted 2010-03-28 22:33 (#62 - in reply to #60)
Subject: RE: Did China learn nothing

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Yes, but, to your post David.

I think it's kinda positive that Beijing chinese are reverting to bicycles, albeit electric, from cars.

Yes, the chinese are buying more new cars than any other country - about a million per month. But it's probably 1 car per 20 or so households (I don't know the exact figure) rather than about 2 per household in USA.

And the chinese are continuing to heavily invest in public mass transit systems, the incidences of that in USA are negligable in comparison.

I think the chinese are learning from western mistakes but they are also learning a bit of our bad habits, too. Unless the state totally clamps down I think that is near inevitable. As with all growing up, mistakes must be made, so far I think China has been about as responsible as it could be within the context of developed nations' profligacy and the pressure from its own population.

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