david_chisnall on Nostr: nprofile1q…pwuyc It’s going to take 8 hours, which means overnight is about the ...
nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqc5laelfeypyl0xrlda7rjnq9frlajerezjm0jw0tvd3ch8t66t3qupwuyc (nprofile…wuyc) It’s going to take 8 hours, which means overnight is about the only option. At the speed of the Shinkansen, it would take a little over three hours which, if you include time waiting at the airports and getting to and from out-of-town airports, would be much faster than flying.
I don’t think either continent ‘gets it’ when it comes to trains, but one is doing much worse.
For reference, the Shinkansen is now over half a century old. This is not new exciting technology, this is something that has been deployed, at scale, for decades and just needs political will and money. The 320 km/h variants have been running for around 40 years. The speed record of 443 km/h is a bit newer but ran commercial routes. The maglev versions, which could do this trip in under two hours, are over twenty years old but are only test tracks, not something that’s a ‘just buy it’ option.
I don’t think either continent ‘gets it’ when it comes to trains, but one is doing much worse.
For reference, the Shinkansen is now over half a century old. This is not new exciting technology, this is something that has been deployed, at scale, for decades and just needs political will and money. The 320 km/h variants have been running for around 40 years. The speed record of 443 km/h is a bit newer but ran commercial routes. The maglev versions, which could do this trip in under two hours, are over twenty years old but are only test tracks, not something that’s a ‘just buy it’ option.