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This. china now has as many miles of high-speed track as the rest of the world combined. cutting travel times and connecting even the most remote parts of the country comfortably. one of my fellow travelers happened to be a lawyer named sandy jang. >> we want our country to be the number one. >> number one country in the world? >> of course. >> leader of the world. >> of course, why not? >> what happens to the u.s.? >> number two. >> number two? >> why not? >> ten hours after leaving beijing, we arrive in shenzhen. like the train network, this city appeared from almost nowhere. 30 years ago, i...

A major driver of productivity growth it could also be great for the environment of course but resurrecting the nation's tiny brail their work and extending it will mean massive investments. traffic in ghana's major cities is a daily frustration for drivers and passengers commuters say they can get trapped in gridlock for hours i mean that. this man. doesn't. instead of a few hours. just into us. you can see that some of the drivers get tired and often cars will collide in traffic. i think if the government can put in place an alternative transport system it would help. the alternative would b...

Western gonna and the other in the capital but passenger numbers are low the current plan calls for the addition of four thousand kilometers to the country's network at a cost of more than twenty one billion dollars the hope is for backing from europe and asia city planners say the investment is essential. yes their course is a man avoidable. go to erupt in order to evil particularly they are rebuilding their cities the cost is going to be huge but when it is stretched over a. long period you see that is economical. the government hopes to put in place an effective train network in the next te...

Going from these past years i would say i'm not very well prepared you know every year monsoon rains cause a complete breakdown of infrastructure and transport services in mumbai that especially affects the local trains which are really a lifeline for mumbai's twenty million citizens but i have to say this this local train network is not safe a lot of accidents take place on this network this year alone more than two thousand people have been killed on local cranes and in mumbai's train station so so tween safety and faulty for structure remain big problems you know experts in fact when we com...

Now this situation that we're seeing with this train derailment, what more can you tell us about why they're so common in india? >> there's two main reasons. sure signs of india's train network and the other one is simply because it is so old. it is in desperate need of modernization and in fact we spoke to him earlier today and he said it outlived it's current form and needs a generational change and in india in the railway system and line them up together. and 1.5 times and look at the number of people it carries every single day. it carries 23 million people every single day george and that...