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> Instead they talk about how wonderful the Shinkansen trains are. At the time, Japan's HSR was the fastest in the world. California's would be the slowest in
by schiffern 4y ago
> Instead they talk about how wonderful the Shinkansen trains are.
At the time, Japan's HSR was the fastest in the world. California's would be the slowest in the world.
Merely slapping on the name "high speed" doesn't make it so.
- TaylorAlexander 4y ago> California's would be the slowest in the world. Can you elaborate on that? Because the train is designed to go 220mph, and if that's "the slowest in the world" then I don't really care. I also read that it needs to slow down to 110mph in some sections, but again that isn't necessarily an issue unless it has to do that all the time. The French TVG route from Paris to Lyon is 243 miles and takes 1 hours and 59 minutes, an average of 121 mph. So if our train travels 220mph sometimes and 110mph sometimes and the French TGV averages 121 mph on longer routes, then I'd say we're in the ballpark of building French TGV style trains in California, which sounds great to me! It sounds like this "slowest in the world" claim is another soundbite without context used to make the project look bad.