Paris and Berlin works, meanwhile, because of their density, local transit and walkability. Get off a train in either city and you're in an urban mecca with no need for a car. That's not true of Atlanta, Denver, Houston or Dallas.
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Philip Oldfield
It’s over 1,000km from Berlin to Paris
There’s now a direct daytime train between them, that takes 8 hours and costs just €59. Leave at 10am, arrive 6pm.
And… it’s just 1% the carbon emissions of the equivalent flight
www.euronews.com/travel/2024/...
There’s now a direct daytime train between them, that takes 8 hours and costs just €59. Leave at 10am, arrive 6pm.
And… it’s just 1% the carbon emissions of the equivalent flight
www.euronews.com/travel/2024/...
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Eastbound trains depart at midnight.
Westbound trains depart at 9am.
There is no other scheduled service currently. There is not parking on-site.
Go!
But the NY and CT segments DEFINITELY aren't
So we get neither.
Not saying they're gospel tbc. E.g., just at first blush, I think they're vastly overrating sprawly Midwest hubs and underrating tourist destinations like LV and Orlando.
There are already some proposed alignments for this route.
There are 2 sections of the existing route that preclude HrSR. Huntingdon to Tyrone and Altoona to Cresson.
Don't need 100% 220mph ROW
It's less than 350 miles
6 hours and I'd be on it a few times a year.
Stop giving America excuses and stop the car lust and let's have some train and transit lust already. Trains are cool and sexy.
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(Fwiw I agree with your main point that the primary obstacle in the USA is right-of-way acquisition.)
(** it helps that such a rail service would bolster Hartsfield’s role as the region’s transportation hub, rather than detracting from it)