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Not really. Flying is fast, but when you measure door to door, in distances of under 1000k, a high speed rail network would not be slower.
by 7bit 2y ago
Not really. Flying is fast, but when you measure door to door, in distances of under 1000k, a high speed rail network would not be slower.
- mytailorisrich 2y agoHence "as distance grows"...
- gmueckl 2y agoBut a 1000km radius around any major center in Europe covers a lot of potential destinations. I assume that a lot of people, especially in the US underestimate the density of Europe.
- mytailorisrich 2y ago1000km is a stretch to set the threshold at which trains win on time. It is also costly, not least when you hit a mountain range... at some point you need to balance billions of euros vs saving an hour (or even less).
- mike_hearn 2y agoIs that always true? In France HSR stations are often like airports, way out of town and you have to get a taxi in/out of wherever you're going. And the rail network seems more exposed to mechanical breakdown in general. I don't have hard data but it feels to me like trains fail or get cancelled much more often than flights do, and when a flight does get cancelled it's usually due to some major failure that'd take out trains too (e.g. power failure).