Driving through the Fraser Valley on the Trans-Canada Highway, I encountered several separate improvement projects. Vehicles would stop at one roadblock, resume travel, reach another, stop again, and then repeat the process. I wondered why highway engineers didn’t put larger crews to work in a single section, finish that part of the road, and then move on to the next.
Instead of being stopped five times over 50 kilometres, drivers might encounter only one major disruption. The same number of workers and pieces of equipment could be employed, so the projects should still be completed within the planned schedule, but with less inconvenience to commercial and personal travellers.
This video shows a resurfacing project completed in hours, not weeks or months. When China decides to move quickly, it can concentrate enormous resources on a task in ways never seen in North America. That capacity may help explain why China has become the world’s largest manufacturing economy and leading exporter of manufactured goods. When speed matters, China often mobilizes the resources needed to get the job done.
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Thanks to Facebook user Laurie Street for pointing me to this video.
Categories: Transportation
While China is impressive with respect to the speed they can get big projects completed, it looks like the 18 km road resurface project is a bit of an urban myth.
https://search.brave.com/ask?q=did+china+actually+repair+18+km+of+road+overnight&conversation=097784675812e7b393e103fa156bcaff09f1#cDEtnp4YNfJqXNXV3bgRzN7OqWyVf0a4FML4nejn5dY
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Follow the money?
Tell bc auditor to look into?
Californication?
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/high-speed-rail-train-california-22357537.php
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Impossible tasks?
Build a ready-to-operate hospital in 6 days? China did it. Twice. Move ocean water to the Gobi Desert then desalinate it to grow food and reclaim land? Did that too. Reduce the poverty level by 800 million? According to the World Bank it was done by 2020.
Chinese willingness to prepare for a crisis long in advance then employ Science and Capitalism to reduce expected shocks – it works.
Example? With accelerated storage of fossil fuels and a shift from diesel powered long haul trucks to hundreds of thousands of electric powered ones the impact of America’s Iran war was a blip.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Electric-Trucks-Have-Moved-From-Impossible-to-Inevitable.html
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=hundreds+of+thousands+of+chinese+electric+powered++trucks&&mid=60BE1A52E9225181D75060BE1A52E9225181D750&churl=https%3a%2f%2fwww.youtube.com%2fchannel%2fUC59iWVUAqdFXzJAwGEgGskA&FORM=VRDGAR
Meanwhile during Donald Trump’s second glorious term his ‘lightning war’ policy wasn’t supposed to create a downside among his loyal followers.
https://www.rawstory.com/truckers/
Trucking bankruptcies mount as Trump’s war forces drivers to take dire measures: report
Well over a dozen small trucking operators filed for bankruptcy over the past month amid soaring diesel prices, and an increasing number of truck drivers have been forced to adopt extreme cost-saving measures, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.
The national average price for a gallon of diesel fuel was $6.36 on Saturday, up $2.65 from a year ago, and only 17 cents less than the all-time high recorded on Sept. 22. Diesel costs soared following disruptions to global oil trade sparked by President Donald Trump’s deeply unpopular war against Iran.
Now, small trucking operators are increasingly filing for bankruptcy, with the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association warning more will follow if fuel prices remain elevated.
The Journal spoke with several truckers at a Flying J Travel Center in Orange, Texas, including Agron Berani, whom the Journal documented paying $944.44 to fill up his 18-wheeler with diesel fuel, which the Journal noted would have cost around $500 a year ago.
“We have to do what we have to do,” Berani, who voted for Trump in 2024, told the Journal. “I can’t sell the truck. What am I going to do if I sell the truck?”
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