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Europe or Japan were nice, but China was amazing. No pre-paid ticket, no planning just show up at the Shenzen train station the morning, arrive in Beijing in th
by slacka 10y ago
Europe or Japan were nice, but China was amazing. No pre-paid ticket, no planning just show up at the Shenzen train station the morning, arrive in Beijing in the evening on the other size of the country.[1]
Imagine freedom, the innovation, the improvement in quality of life if we could hop on a train in the morning NYC and arrive in SF at night for ~$100. I found the trains so much more comfortable than even flying first class. Seeing the countryside fly by at 350km/hr is worth the price alone. Americans have no idea what they're missing.
http://www.beijingchina.net.cn/transportation/train/train-from-shenzhen.html#part1 http://www.beijingchina.net.cn/transportation/train/train-fr...
- nhf 10y agoI get your point, but that's a slightly inconvenient comparison. Shenzhen - Beijing is ~1200 miles, SF - NY is ~2600 miles. At the highest passenger rail speeds out there, the trip would probably end up being 12-18 hours.
- milesrout 10y agoI'd take an 18-hour train ride from SF to NY. Hell yeah. That sounds amazing. Much better than driving it.
- coredog64 10y agoThere are several hundred miles of very tall mountains in the way. Unless someone is contemplating a century long project to dig a tunnel, those miles will be taken at a crawl.
- ghaff 10y agoHeck, even the geography between NYC and Chicago--which would be potentially interesting based on crow flies distance and amount of travel--almost certainly makes HSR not viable.
- briandear 10y agoAs a tourist, that trip can be nice, but burning and entire day to travel for business? Imagine the improvement in quality of life if we could get on a supersonic airplane and be in NYC from SFO in two hours.
- ghaff 10y agoSo I save 4 hours out of a 10ish hour door to door trip for me. Nice, sure. But hardly a dramatic quality of life improvement.