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If the system requires a charismatic politician vocal about high speed rail he/she either doesn't exist or not enough people care for it?
by 6510 5y ago
If the system requires a charismatic politician vocal about high speed rail he/she either doesn't exist or not enough people care for it?
- laurencerowe 5y agoI don't think people particularly care about high speed rail in Britain since the vast majority of the population live within 200 miles of London and our existing trains go up to 125mph on the mainlines so get you to London in a couple of hours or so. Edinburgh or Glasgow to London is a similar distance as LA to SF. Those trains take about 4 hours right now versus 8 hours on Amtrak, about the same as the 8 1/2 hours the Flying Scotsman took from Edinburgh to London in 1888.