@light
> You mean this place?

That's the one. Thanks for the link to the article on the Greater Auckland site, which linked to this fantastic proposal for a rapid passenger rail service between Tamaki Makaurau, Waikato and Tauranga;

https://www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2017/08/17/introducing-regional-rapid-rail/

In these days of oil wars and spiking fossil fuel prices, this proposal from 2017 looks even more prescient than it did at the time.

#PassengerRail #FastTrains #GoldenTriangle #PublicTransport #railways #trains

@chris

I reach the South Coach station in Kunming after half an hour on the metro. They tell me there's a coach leaving for the Golden Triangle in an hour. I have no idea where the Golden Triangle is. I find out that it's a point where Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar share a border. it's a deviation from the North-South route I'm travelling on, but it'll save me some days of travel. So I jump on the coach. As in 2019, there are bunk beds on board! After 12 hours of overnight travel, I have a veggie breakfast at a roadside restaurant in China. It ends up way too spicy, but it´s good. Finally, I leave China and enter Laos, not without a lot of questioning at the border as the reasons for my slow-travel.

You can watch videos of my journey on my YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0pJz61Yugg&list=PLJL-sRWA7R4--Dp2bFilC5zc-f2mXp0e4 47/

#RefuseToFly #Decarbonise #ClimateEmergency #ClimateAction #slowtravel #TrainTravel #China #goldentriangle #OvernightCoach