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Re:As the U.S. fantasizes, the world builds high speed rail by nine_k on Saturday July 01, 2017 @06:03PM (#14679289)
The principal advantage of a train before airplane for me is that boarding a plane is a hour or so, while boarding a train is 5–10 minutes. Also, you can have a train much closer to the city (or right in the middle of it) than an airport. If hyperloop loses these advantages, I'd bet on airplanes.
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Re:As the U.S. fantasizes, the world builds high speed rail by trophycase on Saturday July 01, 2017 @09:56PM (#14680372)
Don't forget that on a plane you're literally packed like sardines and can only get up and move maybe once or twice. Flying is pretty miserable tbh.
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