It would be better to transport the goods by rail rather than by road.

用铁路运送这批货物会比用公路好。

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Successive governments have permitted such increases on the grounds that the cost of investing in and running the rail network should be borne by those who use it, rather than the general taxpayer.

历届政府都允许这种增长，理由是投资和运营铁路网络的成本应由使用者承担，而不是一般纳税人。

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Generally speaking, it "s cheaper but slower to ship goods by sea than by rail."

总的来说，海运比铁路运输更便宜，但速度慢一些。

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"In less than a decade, we constructed more high-speed rail lines than what it took Japan and Europe 40 years to build, " said Zhao Jian, an economics professor at Beijing Jiaotong University and one of the country's leading experts on rail transportation.

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We believe that these kinds of investments are critical for the future economic growth of this country and to allow us to compete with countries around the world where, as you know, high-speed rail is quite a bit further advanced than it is here in the United States.

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Bear in mind it carries more passengers in one day than the whole of the UK's rail system.

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