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surely it's intra-city not inter-city?

• vidarh 7y ago
  300km range, so inter-city a lot of places. I live in London - with 300km range I could reach Manchester in an hour instead of spending an hour getting to the right train station to get onto a 3 hour train journey. Or I could reach Calais, France in less time. Not quite enough range to reach Paris, but still fast enough that you could pop over to Calais, go through passport control/customs, and take another one in to Paris in maybe 90 minutes - about the at which I could expect to have gotten onto a Eurostar train. If they'll be able to land them enough places, close enough, and be cheap enough, this is just about enough range to cause massive changes in transportation patterns. I currently have one international airport within 20 minutes of my nearest transport hub. If I could get into one of these there, I'd be able to go direct to a lot of nearby locations, or reach 6 international airports within 20 minutes and probably 20+ within an hour. I'd be able to commute to the majority of England in the same time I can commute to the centre of London today.... It both opens fantastic possibilities and is a bit terrifying at the same time (in terms of driving energy demand..)