The benefits of projects like this always seem to quote how massive distances can be covered in a few hours. In this case it’s a 2200km journey being done in 2

The benefits of projects like this always seem to quote how massive distances can be covered in a few hours. In this case it’s a 2200km journey being done in 2 hours. That is of course amazing, but doesn’t seem very impactful to boring people like me. I’d be much more excited about my 30 mile train journey being over in 5 minutes instead of 45. Even that seems selfish. Wouldn’t it be more exciting to have trains that carried 10x as many passengers, reducing fares by massive amounts? Who is pushing for raw speed over throughput?