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Re:Deutsche Bahn’s Meltdown and High-Speed Rail by mudita on Monday July 25, 2022 @04:41AM (#32221937)
On the same blog there’s an article criticising exactly this argument in detail: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2021/06/26/meme-weeding-p...

"Looking forward rather than backward, nothing in Germany’s urban geography is an obstacle to a connected high-speed rail network. With central stations and less of the population living in truly isolated rural and small-city communities, Germany can expect to greatly surpass any other Western intercity rail network if it builds high-speed rail, more than reaching DB’s pre-corona 250 million ridership target."

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Re:Deutsche Bahn’s Meltdown and High-Speed Rail by iggldiggl on Monday July 25, 2022 @07:19AM (#32222921)
Given a certain proportion of journeys that you want to cover with high-speed rail, I'd say polycentricity still means you need to build more infrastructure than under a monocentric (France) or linear (Italy, Japan) model.
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