Urban: Market Street BART and NYC subway on their good days. There's a subway stop every 8 blocks, which unfortunately stops the train, so they don't make much forward progress, but I'm also not walking all that much, and the trains are every 5-10 at worst.
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Replying to @poiThePoi @380kmh and
Suburban: Caltrain at express stops (6 TPH), suburban BART, working NJT, that one Metro-North train I took. Moderate capacity (800 per train is standard), 4-6 TPH at any given stop, probably 35 MPH on the locals, 50-70 on the express.
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Replying to @poiThePoi @380kmh and
Unfortunately, because of the gaps, you either do TOD where your destination *is* the stop, or you Uber or hit useless suburban bus systems when you get off the trains. And they have an annoying habit of doing 1 TPH on weekends, which I get, but also shoot me now.
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Replying to @380kmh @poiThePoi and
but ok I mainly wanted to see if you had any experience w non-USA trains
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Paris to CDG, a complete disgust at Ireland's system since the entire country shuts down on Sunday and dropping the rental car is really hard (and I had to do it anyways). I'm looking forwards to Japan and Germany in 2019. Chiba to Narita in 2 hours.
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Replying to @poiThePoi @380kmh and
Germany's train network is… not great. It's been going though so many budget cuts since it's been semi-privatized that it doesn't even have enough trains to run all routes at design capacity. That's before trains break down mid-route.
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Replying to @Chiakipus @poiThePoi and
5 years ago I needed to take the train for a 1000km trip to get to a funeral in time. (No airports close to either start or destination.) Scheduled to take 12 hours – yes, that's about 70 mph average speed… using RailJet and ICE high speed trains.
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Replying to @Chiakipus @poiThePoi and
>1000km even in Japan that's flying (or overnight bus) distance; few people take the bullet train from Tokyo to Fukuoka despite it being possible (it takes about 6 hours, is over 1000km)
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Replying to @380kmh @poiThePoi and
Talk about yourself, the Nozomi is AWESOME. …and expensive. BUT MAINLY AWESOME
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lmao I'm a huge train fan, *I* always take the train for that trip, but anyone not motivated by passion would do something more sensible, like fly
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