That's a decent growth but man...if full service is just 16 daily trips, they're toast. Even the Hartford Line has that--and it has the advantage of serving more stations. America gotta realize that the only way to get money in passenger rail is in HIGH FREQUENCY servicehttps://twitter.com/MarketUrbanism/status/1046562405331988480 …
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And as for LGV Sud-Est...I'm still wondering why they never ran the route through Troyes and Dijon back when they built it, or at least added stops at the few towns they DID pass, like Sens and Le Creusot
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They skipped Dijon because detouring to serve it would add several tens of km to the route-length. And there is a Le Creusot stop.
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Oh whoops re: Le Creusot... Granted Dijon would've made the route a bit longer, but if this graphic is any indicator, that would've been a better choice than what they're planning to do insteadpic.twitter.com/dPhFbH5CHr
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[Dijon might also have required a tunnel. There are no tunnels on the LGV Sud-Est.] The LGV Sud-Est is ~100 km shorter than the legacy line.
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The best Japanese comparison is the Chuo Shinkansen, modulo tunnels: ~400 km vs. 515 on the Tokaido Shinkansen and 550 on the legacy line.
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Right so TGV could've afforded to be closer to the legacy route mileage and still been a huge success, and even when a greenfield route cuts out a ton of mileage it's still smart to have stops at whatever towns it passes (Kofu, Iida, etc)
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I don't think it could have served Dijon centrally either way; the only intermediate stop on an LGV through a city center is Lille.
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Yeah, sure. It would be useful, but these places are still way smaller than Orlando.
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...and? Atami, Kakegawa, Maibara, etc, are hardly comparable to Tokyo, Osaka, or Nagoya
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Even new routes like the Hokkaido Shinkansen have planned stops at tiny towns like Yakumo and Kutchan just because they're conveniently on-the-way
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Sure, because they're meant to replace the legacy lines, which are being given to third sector railways.
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But on thick enough lines to have both kinds of traffic, there's way more express traffic. Compare Nozomi and Kodama frequencies.
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Compare Nozomi and TGV frequencies tho If they didn't run *any* Kodama, that would be one thing, but they still do--and it's not as if the 3rd sector or original Tokaido lines have *stopped* running; their operations are very much a part of the "run local trains too" aspect
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Sure, but in places in Japan where population density and city size are more similar to the situation of Florida, it's down to Third Sector.
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There are 6.8 million people living between Vero Beach and Miami (well, a few are out in Homestead etc) and almost all are within 10 miles of the coast, no way this would be third sector in Japan
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