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Incredibly based.
It helps that Spain has world-class trains and are continuously investing in expanding the network.
I’m so jealous. I wish the complete shitstain right-wingers that cancelled train investment in my country were fired. (out of a cannon into the sun)
It helps that Spain has world-class trains
As Spaniard I wouldn’t go that far… but yeah they are good. But not all of them 😅 specially the shorter routes. Apart from some maintenance issues, It doesn’t help that from time to time a line is down because they have stolen copper wires…
One tragic fact of life is that it doesn’t really take that much to become world-class as far as trains go. The HSR network alone basically places you on the podium.
People steal the copper wires everywhere.
I know someone that works in the rail industry with building and maintenance.
It’s apparently very important to electrify the wire as soon as you are done with whatever you were doing. Otherwise someone will know that it’s not electrified and they will steal it. And the company/state will lose quite a lot of money in raw materials (the overhead wires are expensive as fuck), delays and further work.
Edit: This isn’t in some third world country or anything either. This is in a rich first world country that’s in the top 10 in terms of HDI and at least top 20 of pretty much every other positive index.
Why bother wasting the resources to send em to space, when a bullet suffices.
I read about world-class and then 40 minutes late…
Delay is most of the time due to congestion. Expanding the network is the way to reduce that.
Legends 👑
Taylor Swift enraged!
Are there train stations at the airports for connections?
I think every airport I’ve been to in Spain is connected to the rail network. Connection to rail and bus is pretty standard, in Western Europe at least.
Airports are notoriously badly connected to final destinations, while trains usually take you to the city center and other public transport.
All the main airports are reached by train. Spain has relatively cheap high-speed railway network.
How about closing airports as well so private jets have no places to land and the overlords can take the fucking train like the rest of us?
Also for connecting flights, or only if the whole trip is a single short haul flight?
As per the article:
Flights with a rail alternative that takes less than two and a half hours will no longer be allowed, “except in cases of connection with hub airports that link with international routes”.
The only trip that I know of that takes less than 2.5 hs by train is Madrid-Barcelona and Madrid-Valencia . But Madrid is an international hub with connections to most of the international routes. So, my thinking is that this would not apply. It might only make sense for private flights, which are already very minor, AFAIK.
Again, smokescreen law, from smokescreen leftist party.
- computerscientistI ( @computerscientistI@lemm.ee ) 1•8 months ago
Do you want people to use their car more? Because this is how you get people to use their car more.
Why would you take your car instead of the train in this case? If you were going to fly anyway then the train makes sense. A car would be slower, you have to drive it yourself, and deal with storing it at your location.
- computerscientistI ( @computerscientistI@lemm.ee ) 2•8 months ago
I am German. So I have the “reliability” od German trains at the back of my mind.
Using cars over planes still sounds like an improvement to me, actually
- computerscientistI ( @computerscientistI@lemm.ee ) 4•8 months ago
As soon as you have at least 2 people in the car, yes. A plane’s fuel consumtpion per pessenger is about that of a car, if the plane is at capacity.
How do you figure that?
- computerscientistI ( @computerscientistI@lemm.ee ) 1•8 months ago
I am German. So I have the “reliability” od German trains at the back of my mind.