Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG

obsidianfoxxy7870@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• pseudo@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  These poor people have such a bad rail network that even their dreams are limited…

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  • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I felt that one as a Brazilian (govt literally went “fuck trains, cars are the future!” for ~30 years starting in the 1950s)

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• Cassanderer@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The thing is the rail network was pretty comprehensive at one point. Only a few remain.

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  • st3ph3n@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It still is, if you’re a piece of rail freight.

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    • faythofdragons@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Even for freight, it used to be better. My tiny rural town used to be serviced by a rail line hauling passengers, timber, and agriculture, but it was gone before I was even born. You can still see some of the old tracks if you know where to look.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  it takes me 24 hours to go by train the same distance it takes me to fly 1.5 hours. and the cost is the same. there are some problems.

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  • recklessengagement@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This has more to do with how commuter trains are forced to give priority to freight trains, causing delays, than actual travel times

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      no it has to do with stopping at every damn town and there being mountains that slow the trains the fuck down from whatever speed y’all imagine them being able to go to like, 40mph. but please go off.

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s not that extreme, but even if we assume a 200 mph HSR train:

    • It would still take 12 hours to drive the 2500 miles from Los Angeles (California) to Jacksonville (Florida)
    • It would still take 6 hours to drive the 1200 miles from Jacksonville (Florida) to Boston (Massachusetts)

    Admittedly, there’s a point to be made that hardly anyone would drive from Florida straight to Massachusetts or the other way around, but the distance is still impressive.

    Airplanes who fly at 600 mph reduce that travel time to 1/3rd.

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  • plyth@feddit.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you go 300km/h by train and 900km/h by plane then the numbers don’t add up.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      they got some fuckin mountains, it ain’t flat

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