Has anyone else here ridden the maglev in Shanghai out of the airport? My 2c is that it was awesomely fast and convenient.
BUT, I was a little unnerved by how much the train jostled at some points. It was like the supports for the track had sunk in some places leading to the tracks no longer being aligned.
Not really informed by anything concrete, but I think there’s a disaster waiting to happen there. China has nowhere near the safety culture I’m used to in the states.
Now the conventional cars of the Shanghai metro? I really with the west coast of the US had infrastructure like that!
From the Boeing 747 MAX incidents you can conclude that if there is a big pile of money involved then safety is a problem to be workaround of, though funny enough there are still people that blame the cause on the safety regulations, like if the regulations were not present then Boeing and the free market (with only 2 competitors) would solve the issues
I rode it ten years ago and it felt safe, I would be interested to know how safety would be for a 1000 mile trip where every inch of track couldn’t be controlled. An animal on the track, sabotage, ice, snow — there are a lot of factors that become very hard to control at those speeds and distances.
Rode it last year and it was fine. But i’m used to rail high-speed trains, so maybe that’s why i found it perfectly quiet and safe.
Another reason could be that it wasn’t the time of the day when it goes up to max speed ( it only reaches 400km/h on certain time of the day, some days only. other time it’s just 350 or something like that)
BUT, I was a little unnerved by how much the train jostled at some points. It was like the supports for the track had sunk in some places leading to the tracks no longer being aligned.
Not really informed by anything concrete, but I think there’s a disaster waiting to happen there. China has nowhere near the safety culture I’m used to in the states.
Now the conventional cars of the Shanghai metro? I really with the west coast of the US had infrastructure like that!