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> Le 30 déc. 2016 à 20:31, Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
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> The US has bigger distances than most of those countries so flying will
> always be a preferred option. But certainly for the Northeast corridor
> Boston-NYC-Philly-Washington a HS train would make a lot of sense, as well as
> other routes like LA-SF or Miami-Jacksonville. Both of the latter distances
> are comparable with the Alicante-Madrid or Alicante-Barcelona distances, and
> I certainly choose the train over flying when I have to go to those cities.
> Especially Madrid where the train takes 2 hours which is faster than flying.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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>> On 30 Dec 2016, at 20:20, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Virtually every nation in western Europe has high speed (HST) rail
>> service. Japan and South Korea have HSTs China has the fastest passenger
>> trains, the Harmony Express, as well as the first magrail train in Shanghai.
>> South Africa has one in Johannesburg. Now Morocco has initiated their own
>> TGV (French) HST service:
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>> http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-38471392
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>> So where does the rich, powerful, high-tech US fit into all this with the
>> 65MPH Acella? It falls into the "cruel joke" category.
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>> Out here, I can drive to Las Vegas almost as fast as I could fly, and I
>> don't have to worry about being strip-searched.
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>> Chris
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>> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
>> - Hunter S. Thompson
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