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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

it's kind of an agenda pushing shit to compare high speed rail with highways, high speed railroads compete with airplanes not cars, on a regular track you can reach 150km/h easily and those cost a fraction and that's already more than the 130km/h limit of highways in Europe

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

German HSR trains go about 250km/h on regular and over 350km/h on HSR-specific tracks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

it's also dishonest to insist that every road you build needs to be a four lane highway, so i thought it about averaged out