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
I was supposed to switch trains twice. In the end, four trains broke down or were delayed by *other* trains breaking down in the middle of bottlenecks, so I have switch trains five times, and arrive three hours late.
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Replying to @Chiakipus @380kmh and
I'm not sure where the nearest airport actually was, but if I flew SF to Portland and then drove to Seattle, that'd be about 900 miles and 9 door-to-door. Once you're hitting 12 hours and 2 transfers, it might be worth poking around.
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Replying to @poiThePoi @380kmh and
Neither Germany nor Austria really have the infrastructure built around casual point to point air travel, it's all geared towards business types and tourists going from hub to hub.
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terrible! casual travel is the most important sort
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