Train Today, Gone Tomorrow
The world is abuzz with high speed train travel. Honestly it has been that way for the last 25 years but only recently with the rapid growth in China have some Americans begun to feel we are being left behind. Honestly it shouldn't just be a feeling, we are being left behind. While the politicians bicker our aging infrastructure falls apart. Our bridges fall down, our roads become bumpy. Our sewer systems leak and our power generation becomes more and more 20th century. We always hear about China this and China that but the only contact that most American's have with China is shopping at Walmart. We can't really conceive how different things could be. When I visited my friend in China in 2011 I had a taste of things first hand. Everywhere you look infrastructure is new. While this is certainly not representative of all of China, industrial China is linking itself increasingly with modern road, rail and telecommunication networks. South Korea has some of the great