>>> Since ... 2016, the population of Shenzhen has grown by over 2 million people, the metro system has added over one hundred kilometers of track, and dozens of new stations have been opened. The city’s taxi and bus fleets were converted from gas to electric. The entirety of Huaqiangbei Road - the center of the electronic market district - has been torn up and replaced with a pedestrian boulevard.
Holy crap. As a Brit we have recently spent 100 billion and twice that time to fail to build a railway between two cities, London still runs almost all petrol bus and taxis and ...
As we have (hopefully) an election coming soon and might see some change I would be interested in why the UK - who about 150 years ago woukd have growth stats very similar to that - has got well, meh.
The usual suspects for such terrible performance are
- much lower starting point. It's easier to setup mobile phone masts than replace the POTS.
- too much regulation (from safety to public consultations that allow NIMBYism to slow things down)
- we are not growing - if the number of people buying mobile phones in year X is twice the number of people who already have a phone, then you can see a different market than if everyone keeps their phone for one extra year. Does something else play out for cities, streets and factories?
- just money coming in. The UK is having serious lack of growth and presumably shenzen is not.
Or is it, that "ooomph" ? a level of belief that tomorrow will be better?
Holy crap. As a Brit we have recently spent 100 billion and twice that time to fail to build a railway between two cities, London still runs almost all petrol bus and taxis and ...
As we have (hopefully) an election coming soon and might see some change I would be interested in why the UK - who about 150 years ago woukd have growth stats very similar to that - has got well, meh.
The usual suspects for such terrible performance are
- much lower starting point. It's easier to setup mobile phone masts than replace the POTS.
- too much regulation (from safety to public consultations that allow NIMBYism to slow things down)
- we are not growing - if the number of people buying mobile phones in year X is twice the number of people who already have a phone, then you can see a different market than if everyone keeps their phone for one extra year. Does something else play out for cities, streets and factories?
- just money coming in. The UK is having serious lack of growth and presumably shenzen is not.
Or is it, that "ooomph" ? a level of belief that tomorrow will be better?