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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
You're still rolling for over 20 hours total. That's abysmal compared to driving as a form of transport. In mountainous terrain areas of Europe usually the trains are significantly faster because the tunnels shorten the routes vs. the highways.
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The 1000 km is also Paris to Berlin which probably has about 100 million more people than Calgary to Vancouver. Comparing any rail in Canada to Europe or Japan isn’t really a good metric. We don’t have the intercity density.