Organizing tasks in pomodoros (which is really close to your method), is a great way to do things.
Change the full-rescan interval to monthly, or yearly even, problem solved.
Spain and France especially seem to be doing a good job building high speed rail:
As far as the motivation for these large projects, its noteworthy that the most common profession in the NPC, the highest governing body in the PRC, is civil engineers.
I've seen a few shorter documentaries about how these massive projects are carried out, and it's fascinating.
China builds something like any other country on earth, but it's china so it must be done in a bad way? Go back to reddit.
Making a profit off of public services is not one of the PRC's goals.
And poverty eradication. And high speed rail. And smartphone and chip tech, and space program... kind of a long list.
The PRC doesn't have an already-built-up car-focused infrastructure like the US does for example, so they get to do it right from scratch. It becomes very difficult to get rid of that once it's built, so its best to do it right from the start.
They're trying to account for current and future needs for city-to-city travel.
Why is the US sending weapons and money to Israel to help it commit genocide?
It's funny when the western supremacists themselves try to claim that supporting communist countries is a uniquely western phenomenon, when its the opposite, it's the US and its vassals demonizing Cuba, China, and the USSR.
The CPC has over 90 million members, every socialist country like Cuba and nearly every communist party on the planet supports and looks up to the CPC as a model for the 21st century. Even most non-communist global south countries look up to it.