Deutsche Bahn train hits 405 km/h without falling to bits
Deutsche Bahn train hits 405 km/h without falling to bits
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Irrelevant considering pricing, frequency and connectivity of minor cities. Going fast is ok. Going often and cheaply while doing an average of 100kmh would be amazing.
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I don't think that these goals are mutually exclusive.
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In many ways they literally are exclusive. The amount of stops drastically reduces possible frequency as well as speed of service, it takes a long time and really long distance to accelerate and brake at these ~300 kph speeds.
Local rail can service high density areas as well as smaller towns, so you want tracks closer to people. High speed rail usually only connects major stations, so most of the length of tracks could go through the middle of a field.
Two different use cases for rail transport which would ideally each get their own infrastructure, and of course there's plenty of options in between, too.
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Unfortunately for politicians they will be
Politicians love the shit that is completely useless but flashy, like a train doing 400kph
Nobody gives a shit about that, we want free trains to everywhere, even if its sorta slow, but that's very boring politically
That's the problem with politics:
People need boring politicians doing boring improvements to society but everyone keeps voting for these vapid but flashy idiots that constantly ruin everything.
I want boring politics
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Funding is finite and so is labor and materials.
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The problem for higher speeds aren't the trains but the rails. There are just a few tracks were the ICEs can even hit 300 km/h
So even if these speeds were practical during normal operation, we'd need significant investments into the track infrastructure first and right now we don't even get enough investments into the track infrastructure to fix the coverage and punctuality.
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Meanwhile, Spain is constantly expanding the high speed network, second in the world after china, with excellent punctuality, and not fixating on speed records.
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Please don't compare our Rail to that of other countries, seeing it alone is already humiliating enough
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The Spanish system has different issues though.
E.g., I found it very irritiating that Renfe Cercanias commuter rail doesn't have a real-time time table. Hence, any trip-planning apps will completely ignore commuter rail.
This kind of head-ache doesn't exist in Germany, as DB and the various regional operators have integrated trip planning and you can plan a trip right from the bus stop across from your home to the metro station next to the hotel in another city, often even if that city is in France or Switzerland.
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Richard Speed
Ah, yes, that byline sounds like a real person.
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It's a pen name. His real name is Dick Velocity.
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He's pretty prolific according to a quick search. Do you have a reason beyond his name to doubt his existence?
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I bet it was still late.
But now it's late, faster.
It's late, but earlier late!
Der sitzt!
Außer die Sitzplatz Reservierung funktioniert nicht