China to Build Morocco High-Speed Rail Line For $350 Million - Newsweek
China to Build Morocco High-Speed Rail Line For $350 Million - Newsweek
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/41983405
9 comments
-
-
Morocco is currently the only African nation with an operational high-speed rail system.
I would have thought Egypt would be the perfect country for high-speed rail, with practically all of its population living along one line.
-
Yes but fun fact, maximized corruption.
-
-
I was curious, here's the driving route on GMaps
-
This price is impossibly cheap even compared to other Chinese built trains in other African countries. Something must be off
-
Are they going to complete this one, or....?
9 comments
oh damn that's so cheap
For comparision, in Berlin Germany there is currently an unnecessary and deeply unpopular inner city highway extension being built. It costs about €300 million per kilometer.
It's easy when you only pay workers five dollars a day, work them like mules for twelve hours a day, are building in the open desert, don't need to do environmental impact surveys, and use cheap building materials and workmanship that starts to fall apart after ten years