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> Would you get on a train right now, during a pandemic? Why, yes. I remember taking the high-speed train from Madrid to Barcelona some years ago in the prefer
by rumanator 6y ago
> Would you get on a train right now, during a pandemic?
Why, yes. I remember taking the high-speed train from Madrid to Barcelona some years ago in the preferente+ class, which cost me about 90€, and there was so much room that, with the exception of my side chair, I couldn't touch anyone else if I reached out in any direction.
And IIRC each carriage had about a 50-seat capacity.
That's a far cry from your typical sardine can experience in any airline, including in high-end seats.
- bergstromm466 6y ago€90 is about what i spend on groceries in two weeks. But sure, keep making assumptions about people's lives outside a Silicon Valley/tech salary. Tell me if I read it wrong, but you meant to say that €90 is a small amount right?
- akadruid1 6y agoPerhaps the OP included the cost to indicate it compared favourably with the cost of air travel and private car travel over the same route? I understand this wouldn't have been true for similarly distanced cites in USA, and I know from experience it wasn't true for London - HSR to Paris or Amsterdam was always several times more expensive than flying, and even domestic intercity rail was notoriously more expensive than flying internationally.