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To the Joker, the Train a Grand Velocite is just a Train de Velocite Moyen
The british mind cannot comprehend the concept of high speed rail.
If they're not going backwards they get confused...
Now go on the road and think that about every single driver out there
Hey come now, Germanys ICE train is up there!
Only our tracks aren't (also slowing the TGV down, here).
Germany when trying to modernize rails: „We'll try to be done by 2070“
I know, I know. But 2070 is the supposedly realistic year from which on it is supposed to get better.
X to doubt.
Welp I won’t live to see it so idgaf /s
With a bit oft luck you'll still see Stuttgart 21 in your lifetime
That's infinitely better than the US trying to force everyone to drive monster trucks by 2070
I remember going by train from Oxted to London in a carriage that had doors for each compartment of eight seats, and no common aisle. I was shocked, I didn't expect wagons like this to be still around.
And all in all, it was about as fast as me going by bike.
Meanwhile in America "you guys got trains?"
you got trains too, often off rail but it still count
If you count hopping on a freighter and hitchhiking to the next town, we have passenger rail in Canada.
*Victorian tracks*
This is indeed the reason why super fast trains have not happened in the UK.
Where I live (Slovakia) the line I use to get to school has been here since 1880ish. SINCE 1907 it rides 120km/h it hasn't sped up for 118 years LOL.
*Ancient roman tracks*
pretty much every track has been replaces many times since then. The most favored national pass-time is sucking landowners penises.
pretty much every track has been replaces many times since then
Of course! But the way they're laid hasn't, something about flat curves that would take a lot of money to incline so instead they built inclining trains. It's not my argument, just something I read. If you think it's nonsense I'd like to know why.
the corners are banked, but they're too sharp so you need to tilt even more to get through comfortably at high speed.
Huh, kinda makes sense how all the funding goes to roads. If it's everyone speeding or going too fast for the road design, they'll have to spend more to make the roads safer. If trains are going too fast for the railroad, they only have to replace the conductor to keep the train from derailing. No need to improve the design.
The RAF has a lot to amswer for!
I have no idea who she is but i smell sarcasm...
Unfortunately, no, she is 100% serious and has doubled down in the replies
Damn.
Then again she's also a kook who thinks medical organ donation programs are a front for "organ harvesting", so not much intellectual capacity for sarcasm anyway I suspect
"Don't donate your organs! They'll take your organs!"
"I-- uh... yes?"
I really fucking hope an astroid gets us before we're capable of space travel.
yup. we can't even look after the planet we live on. Why would we go to another planet to ruin that one too?
I'm hoping for a zero point energy transition and the entire Universe just gets wiped clean.
Casey Jones is high on cocaine again.