High Speed Train will Slow Down
The Ministry of Railways decides to slow down the high speed trains after about half month of the train crash on 7.23. The proposal is to decrease 50km/h from the current 350/300/250 km/h designed speed, and the 200km/h train will slow down to 160km/h. Accordingly, the ticket price will decrease.
The new railway operation chart is still under compiling, and railway stations have stopped selling all high speed train ticket after Aug. 15. In the meantime, the State Council is going to check the safety of all high speed railways and the projects under construction.
In the past several years, China has accelerated the train speed for 6 times. It is the first time to slow down the train speed after it rushed for the world record highest speed for several times.
Hope the high speed train can be safe. Hope it is a good start for China to correct its blind development.
