I knew someone who would take a 6 hour direct TGV to a southern city. The line got cancelled and now she has to switch in another major city that's not Paris, but the layover if short and she misses her connection if the train is too late. So now she builds in a buffer of two hours, but that just adds to the time she's travelling. And neither of the two trains are TGV.
Both the democratic party and the republican party in their current forms are entirely a product of capitalism in the imperial core. Donors make policy. Politicians do theater.
Capitalism prevents a lot of things, but rail networks aren't one of them. This is totally possible under capitalism.
Under the democratic party as it currently exists? No chance in hell
It is not possible in an era of capitalism dominated by oil & car cartels.
Very possible under less dumb capitalism, Japan and France have great high speed rail.
I was looking at rail in Australia the other day and a train from Brisbane to Melbourne takes 26 hours while a car only takes 15 and a half hours :/
Although to be fair we don’t have the population density to make it as economically viable as other countries but it should still be better.
In France, if you want to go to or from Paris, you're golden. If you don't, well, it's gonna take ten hours and you may be going through Paris anyway.
That’s disappointing, I’d heard TVG was really good.
I knew someone who would take a 6 hour direct TGV to a southern city. The line got cancelled and now she has to switch in another major city that's not Paris, but the layover if short and she misses her connection if the train is too late. So now she builds in a buffer of two hours, but that just adds to the time she's travelling. And neither of the two trains are TGV.
Both the democratic party and the republican party in their current forms are entirely a product of capitalism in the imperial core. Donors make policy. Politicians do theater.