The Incheon airport express train is ridiculous. It runs express from the airport to only the main Seoul station, all important (and useful) interchange stops are skipped. You need to buy a ticket at a machine which assigns you a seat. Worst of all, it runs only every ~40 minutes!
The Incheon airport Express train has some great views. It’s a long journey though, especially when cheaping out and taking the all-stop.
Beijing maglev. Cool little line through the suburbs and a converted industrial park. Doors take very long to open though and the top speed is rather low.
The views from the Beijing S1 maglev line are great! It goes straight through an old industrial area where the 2022 Olympic ski jump was held
Trike-pick-up carrying more than any modern US pick-up truck owner would ever carry
I have never gone through a security check more strict than Tiananmen Square and I don’t think I ever will. They checked every page of my travel guide and confiscated my pens. Worth it though.
The smallest McDonalds I’ve ever seen. They only had two burgers on the menu.
Hello from westjet flight 71 from Amsterdam to Halifax. We are on a 737-8 so I am boeing to die. It is going to be the smallest plane I’ve done a transatlantic crossing on, and the longest 737 journey I’ve taken
On the Fuxing high speed train from Qingdao to Beijing. Top speed: 350km/h
After discovering @bicycledutch.bsky.social, a Tsinghua University professor advocated for the fietsstraat: where cyclists are the main users and cars are guests. Today, that idea has spread across Beijing: Hundreds of kilometres of bike-priority streets now form the backbone of the city’s network.
This metro system opened 10 years ago. It has 189 stations and an annual ridership of over 400 million
On the train to Qingdao. A 6+ hour journey from Shanghai on this higher-speed 200km/h train built by Bombardier in 2007.
Suzhou opened its first metro line in 2012, this is what it looks like now
I can not begin to explain to you how massive these towers are
Here's a massive girder which blocked us for a couple minutes on our way out of the factory
Hugo von der Thüsen@hugovdthusen.com · 2w agoThe ZPMC crane factory is absolutely massive. This view is from a 29 story hotel tower for the clients. The apartment buildings house 15000 workers and their families. This company has a 70% market share for port cranes.
This company also built the new Oakland bay bridge
Hugo von der Thüsen@hugovdthusen.com · 2w agoThe ZPMC crane factory is absolutely massive. This view is from a 29 story hotel tower for the clients. The apartment buildings house 15000 workers and their families. This company has a 70% market share for port cranes.
The ZPMC crane factory is absolutely massive. This view is from a 29 story hotel tower for the clients. The apartment buildings house 15000 workers and their families. This company has a 70% market share for port cranes.
