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    20 hours ago

    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.