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Re:In Denmark's Train Dream, the Next Big City Is Only an Ho... by easytiger on Thursday July 18, 2019 @03:22AM (#20467549)
It takes four hours because they are on different Islands that aren't near each other or connected well. You are insinuating that it is just a slow train.

There isn't much you can do other than spend tens of billions building a bridge or tunnel. Cars often get the ferry to make that journey.

A train has to travel in the opposite direction, across several islands and then back up. 4 hours is pretty good considering that. Even then there is so little demand for this journey it is infrequent.

https://goo.gl/maps/SZeteqJRc1ng49go8

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Re:In Denmark's Train Dream, the Next Big City Is Only an Ho... by 24gttghh on Thursday July 18, 2019 @10:07AM (#20469891)
Actually, it seems to only take 2h:50min by train Copenhagen to Aarhus[0], while by car it takes 3 hours with the ferry from Sjællands Odde to Aarhus[1].

[0]https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Copenhagen/Aarhus,+Denmark/@...

[1]https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Copenhagen/Aarhus,+Denmark/@...

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Re:In Denmark's Train Dream, the Next Big City Is Only an Ho... by LeonidasXIV on Thursday July 18, 2019 @04:45AM (#20467961)
> There isn't much you can do other than spend tens of billions building a bridge or tunnel. Cars often get the ferry to make that journey.

There is a precedent for taking a train on the ferry [0]. Sure, a tunnel is preferable and it would've been constructed but the German authorities were dragging their feet for years[1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogelfluglinie

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fehmarn_Belt_Fixed_Link

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Re:In Denmark's Train Dream, the Next Big City Is Only an Ho... by oposa on Thursday July 18, 2019 @07:36AM (#20468711)
Gothenburg to Stockholm is longer and takes 3 hours by train, and that is with a train from 1990. That is of course the prime route in Sweden, but it still isn't fast.
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