I tried to make it fairly realistic. Obviously I would like HSR absolutely everywhere, but a line through middle of nowhere Montana probably would not see much ridership and would come at extreme cost (especially in the mountains).

  • Magister@lemmy.worldEnglish
    45·
    1 year ago

    Imagine Montréal<->New York in 2h instead of 11h… We could go there the morning like leave at 6AM from Montreal and be in NYC at 8AM, spend the day there, and go back at like 10PM

      • Nsh@lemmy.caEnglish
        171·
        1 year ago

        There is a train, it’s 10 hours. And by car it’s 6 hours…

      • Magister@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Train that already exists, depart is at 11AM and you arrive in NYC at 10PM.

        By car it’s way faster, 6 or 7h iirc

    • fish@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Is that really how fast high speed rail could be?!?!?

      Man… I could visit my family and go home in the same day … visit every weekend if I felt like it

      I feel like something’s been taken from me :'(