[biggoodwolf]

As opposed to where? At least they're trying, rest of the world has not build meaningfully either in quite a long time. Maybe only China

[malermeister]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_Baltica

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%AB%C5%8D_Shinkansen

[throwoutway]

Thanks for posting the Baltica! I didnt know about that and Im excited now

[vkou]

> At least they're trying, rest of the world has not build meaningfully either in quite a long time.

Some of the rest of the world builds meaningful societies/economies. Ones that won't explode into civil war the moment that the firehose of oil is tapped out.

I understand that parts of the Middle East are trying to do that as well, but it's not clear what the effort results in.

[bastawhiz]

> rest of the world has not build meaningfully

Is a giant (broken) ferris wheel "building meaningfully"?

[jadtz]

Why not? Testing limits of engineering on our planet. Surely, some contribution was made to human knowledge by building/funding the wheel.

[B1FF_PSUVM]

I was surprised how well it is working.

It's probably a less than 6 hour flight for 2/3 or 3/4 of the world population.

[seydor]

Nothing that is architecturally meaningful has been built in dubai. the heyday of architecture and capitalist megastructures is long gone, even though some interesting stuff is being built here and there, including china. Attention has shifted away from buildings and cities (i guess because people travel so much more) and into the virtual world.