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Re:Amtrak's 2035 map has people talking about the future of ... by culopatin on Monday April 26, 2021 @07:03PM (#26949432)
I rather do that and be at the place I chose as my destination in 3hs than to be bound to a train for 18hs no matter how pretty the views are.
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Re:Amtrak's 2035 map has people talking about the future of ... by cromwellian on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @12:45AM (#26952098)
The fact that the train takes 18hrs is a political decision. In Japan, the same train over the same distance, often with even more torturous landscape and crowed infrastructure, takes 3hrs.
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Re:Amtrak's 2035 map has people talking about the future of ... by culopatin on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @12:24PM (#26958075)
It is a complex mess. Ground Public transportation in the US is overall too slow. Even local buses are hours slower than anything else.
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