Paris to Berlin is just over 1000km.
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Paris to Berlin is just over 1000km.
Vancouver to Calgary
is just under 1000kmSeattle to San Fransisco is 1200km
One continent gets it.
The other is a joke.
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@chris At this point, even regional rail in Western Canada sounds like a fairy tale, let alone interprovincial trains. 🥲
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@Anibyl yep
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@pinhman @Anibyl enter, the Auto Train.
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@chris It’s going to take 8 hours, which means overnight is about the only option. At the speed of the Shinkansen, it would take a little over three hours which, if you include time waiting at the airports and getting to and from out-of-town airports, would be much faster than flying.
I don’t think either continent ‘gets it’ when it comes to trains, but one is doing much worse.
For reference, the Shinkansen is now over half a century old. This is not new exciting technology, this is something that has been deployed, at scale, for decades and just needs political will and money. The 320 km/h variants have been running for around 40 years. The speed record of 443 km/h is a bit newer but ran commercial routes. The maglev versions, which could do this trip in under two hours, are over twenty years old but are only test tracks, not something that’s a ‘just buy it’ option.
