| Obviously decision of building Maglev is a show conducted by those very few high level officials. They want people to be aware of their achievement of make Shanghai so 'modern'. As for if it's worth doing this, that's not what they care. I recently have been Shanghai and had an experience of taking taxi in an evening rush hour to eat something good. I doubt the average speed of rush hour traffic reached 15 km/h. That was fully disabled traffic - not just traffic jam - you got to witness it to believe how bad that was. However instead of spending money to increase the rush hour traffic speed to just 15 miles/h those desicion makers prefer to use that huge amount of tax money to build such a fancy, useless tourist oriented attraction just to make people 'WOW'. The real winners are those German companies who previously never thought people may actually buy these stuff :) |