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Very. Spain’s high-speed service killed the Barcelona-Madrid air route, which had been the world’s busiest.
by shereadsthenews 8y ago
Very. Spain’s high-speed service killed the Barcelona-Madrid air route, which had been the world’s busiest.
- pmyteh 8y agoAnd taken the lion's share of London to Paris, which was also huge. But a combination of high-speed day trains and low-cost air has killed off many of the very long distance trains and most of Europe's sleeper services. So it's a bit of a mixed bag.
- sonar_un 8y agoFun anecdote here. Just last month my wife and I were in Barcelona and we needed to go to Madrid. She had her company buy a plane ticket and I took the train. We left at the exact same time and I took 100% public transportation and she had a car service on both ends and a plane ticket. I made it to our destination across the town from the Madrid central 45 minutes before she did.