A ride on Indonesia’s new ‘Whoosh,’ the first bullet train in Southeast Asia, was disappointing
is Indonesia’s new high-speed rail line, which opened last fall. Its existence is a breakthrough — Whoosh is the first bullet train in Southeast Asia. Similarly, California’s train could be the first truly high-speed service in North America. , there were few passengers. Whoosh is already losing money, as high-speed rail systems worldwide do.
In Jakarta, you don’t board the train in the city center but at Halim Station, on the city’s southeast side. My taxi ride there from Central Jakarta took 45 minutes. California’s approach to high-speed rail suffers from a similar failure to connect. The first segment remains entirely within the Central Valley, not penetrating even the outer edges of the Bay Area and of Southern California. That first segment’s endpoints, Merced and Bakersfield, have limited public transportation options; traveling to other destinations would require navigating slow transit questions, or accessing a car., Xi Jinping’s highly touted but faltering infrastructure loan program.
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