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A comment on Spain's plan to ban domestic flights where you can take a train in under 2.5 hrs. Parent comment

Re:Spain's plan to ban domestic flights where you can take a... by jncfhnb on Monday February 26, 2024 @10:58AM (#39512753)
It’s not like the US passenger trains have the capacity to absorb those fliers though. I’m guessing Spain is the same…
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Re:Spain's plan to ban domestic flights where you can take a... by vidarh on Monday February 26, 2024 @11:58AM (#39513693)
> I’m guessing Spain is the same…

Spain has massively expanded a high-speed rail network in recent years, and now has the largest high-speed rail network in Europe, and second longest in the world after China. A lot of that has been built separately to the pre-existing rail network, and so has added a lot of additional capacity.

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