China has built the world’s largest bullet-train network

Re:China has built the world’s largest bullet-train network by Spooky23 on Monday January 16, 2017 @07:59PM (#13414386)

That's a great point.

The train from Albany to NYC is at or near capacity daily, although it's only 150 miles. Similar use case in many ways... It's enough of a pain to drive that people want to avoid it, and it's better than a car to go to Manhattan.

My uncle used to fly LGA to BOS a couple of times a week... I betcha that train trip is shorter now given the security and other nonsense associated with flying.

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Re:China has built the world’s largest bullet-train network by ghaff on Monday January 16, 2017 @08:46PM (#13414546)

Depends where you are coming from and going to. I do prefer to take the train driving from the western Boston suburbs to Manhattan (so RTE to NYP) but it's not actually faster than driving directly. Probably is faster than flying though.

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