• zod000@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    Not that I disagree that we need high speed rail, but “several days by road”? That’s a day and a half tops.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 days ago

      It’s a day and a half the way we Americans drive which is to run on coffee and fast food and burn above the speed limit for fourteen hours a day.

      I am (or was, now I’m having doubts) of the belief that European motorists were more inclined to take their time, see some sights and not exhaust themselves in the transit. That may have been a late-20th century thing.

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        3 days ago

        No, it is a 13 and a half hour drive according to Google, which would be according to the speed limit. We Americans would do it in a single day because hotels are expensive.

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          2 days ago

          Google is telling me it’s only 12 hours. I’ve definitely driven that far in a single day, and could probably shave that down to 11

          Still though, that’s a huge travel commitment for tourists who are used to major cities being 4-hours apart by train