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> Thinking that the longest train link in France, a country that's 1000 km wide and 1000 km high, is 100 km long is completely ridiculous. They do specifically
by IanCal 11y ago
> Thinking that the longest train link in France, a country that's 1000 km wide and 1000 km high, is 100 km long is completely ridiculous.
They do specifically mention "high speed" train lines.
- mikeash 11y agoSo what? France has an extensive high-speed rail network which even a cursory glance would reveal if one wasn't already aware.
- IanCal 11y agoPeople seemed to be talking rather angrily at each other without actually reading what they said. > So what? Call me old fashioned, but I think it's worth responding to what's actually been said.
- mikeash 11y agoWhat was said up there was that the longest high-speed rail link in France is 106km long. This is obviously absurd and wrong, which even the most cursory investigation would reveal. What did I fail to read, exactly? Is it that seszett didn't explicitly specify "high speed" in that one sentence? As I said in my reply, so what? The overall point, that the 106km figure is ridiculous, stands regardless.
- seszett 11y agoWell I'm talking about high speed train lines, I only included Quimper-Vintimille for comparison. Even if you somehow counted only >300km/h as high-speed, then the LGV Est is a bit more than 300 km long and rated at 320 km/h. I suspect a 100 km-long high-speed line would not even be competitive against cars, except maybe in dense urban areas where car traffic is often slow.