Pros and Cons. Consider ICE, the German equivalent to the TGV. Germany is not centralized, so you find ICE connections all over the place. But few are as good

Pros and Cons. Consider ICE, the German equivalent to the TGV. Germany is not centralized, so you find ICE connections all over the place. But few are as good or as high speed on the whole track as the ones coming out of Paris. Here, centrality made it easier to build and expand a high speed net that is much less piecemeal. In Germany, you can go with ICE from any midrange town to another. And yet, only a handful of sections are 300kph