Have you been in a city with a subway? The speed on the tracks is not the issue. They're fast enough already. The main thing slowing you down is the many stops, it only takes like a couple minutes to get from one stop to the next. So there isn't really a point to faster urban trains. High speed trains are for long distances.
Subways are awesome. I have a car but I prefer not to use it because it is just so much more convenient to use the subway instead. This last year I have to use the car though because of covid :(
But yeah every big city with the capacity to have a subway should have one, it brings everything close, combined with a good bus and tram system. Many people in the suburbs only use their car to get to the nearest subway station. Here you typically only have to wait like 5 minutes for the subway to show up, tickets are around 1.30 euros (and it's not that hard to avoid them altogether), and they go fast af. I wish we had a couple more lines though. One is under construction but it's gonna be years before it's over because everything takes way too damn long in this country. But hey, at least we have subways.
So a 500 mph railroad would be for long haul, cross continental trips like the Trans Siberian railway and not what you take getting to work every day?
Have you been in a city with a subway? The speed on the tracks is not the issue. They're fast enough already. The main thing slowing you down is the many stops, it only takes like a couple minutes to get from one stop to the next. So there isn't really a point to faster urban trains. High speed trains are for long distances.
no because I am am*rican :angery:
Sucks to be u
Subways are awesome. I have a car but I prefer not to use it because it is just so much more convenient to use the subway instead. This last year I have to use the car though because of covid :(
But yeah every big city with the capacity to have a subway should have one, it brings everything close, combined with a good bus and tram system. Many people in the suburbs only use their car to get to the nearest subway station. Here you typically only have to wait like 5 minutes for the subway to show up, tickets are around 1.30 euros (and it's not that hard to avoid them altogether), and they go fast af. I wish we had a couple more lines though. One is under construction but it's gonna be years before it's over because everything takes way too damn long in this country. But hey, at least we have subways.
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