> Yes we do! Speed is limited with infrastructure, and France isn't exactly the US. There are not a lot of population centers like Germany which has 14 cities

> Yes we do! Speed is limited with infrastructure, and France isn't exactly the US. There are not a lot of population centers like Germany which has 14 cities that have more than 500k people while France has four and 20% of the population lives around Paris anyway. You can get from the center of Paris to the center of Marseille (second largest city, other side of the country) in about three hours by TGV. When you count in the half hour to the airport (optimistic), the security and waiting times (Europeans commonly suggest coming the the airport at least two hours before your flight), the flight is an hour and a half with Ryanair so you can also have a scratch lottery on your luxurious flight, let's say you take half an hour to get your stuff after landing and need half an hour to the city center. TGV wins, and that's without even mentioning the smoothness of the ride, amenities, leg room, walking around, restaurants and bars. Price is the only thing that goes for air travel in this case, but that's what the government needs to fix. > No; we want legroom. Already done. > We don't want that either. Isn't your electricity nuclear power anyway? What's the problem with consuming too much clean energy? Last I heard nuclear energy still costs money, clean or not. So, TGV is very good in this aspect, considering everything. It's not perfect, but it's good enough in more than one way.