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  • High speed to replace airplanes and uncomfortably short flights/uncomfortably long drives

    Yeah, those are profitable in Europe, but at the expense of everything else and they soak up all the state funding for rail infrastructure development. But they only go between major cities and rarely stop on the way because otherwise they can’t compete with flights time wise.


  • I think people need to start defining what they mean with “high speed rail”, because in Europe the high speed rail connections between larger cities are about the only ones profitable, so much so that it goes at the expense of regional medium speed rail connections. In addition the construction of the rail lines that allow to go faster than 200km/h are highly profitable as well and the money spend on that is missing for the maintenance of the normal speed regional rail links.

    But I acknoledge that in many places regional rail that goes between 100 and 200 km/h is considered high speed rail.