Interface seems to be broken on mobile iOS.
You just need to close the instruction dialog which is obscuring the whole view
No — the actual controls on the map don’t work for me. If it works for you then it must be something weird on my device.
How far can you go by train in 5h?
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#342Amazing map. Hovering around over South Sweden and North Germany, makes it quite obvious that the Femern tunnel will make a difference in connecting that area. Same for connecting north from Lombardy through the mountains.
Sweden-Denmark is already well connected too, but I hope that norway-swesen gets improved.
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#343This is very timely. In September I will have four days of down time with my wife in Paris. We want to get out of town but don't know where. This gives us some options. If anybody here has suggestions where we can spend a few days taking in non-Parisian France, let me know.
I really liked Strasbourg. France meets Germany in a compact historical center, 2hrs each way from Paris on the TGV. Just go when the EU government is not meeting there, because for 4 days a month, they all have to pack up from Brussels and move to Strasbourg. Reims and the Champagne region are on the TGV to Strasbourg as well, making that an easy day trip from Paris. There are also the night trains (Intercities de N…
Strasbourg will be a connector for Paris to Vienna line.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Line_for_Europe
It will take 4hrs from Paris to Munich (900km)
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#344You can really see the Paris-centric approach in France: From Paris you can reach almost any other major city in 4h, but on the other hand, all the other metropolis can barely reach 1/4th of the other major population center in 4h. Compare this to Germany where almost any major metropolis can reach 80% of the country in 4h ...
The asymmetry from my home town of Bordeaux in the South West is striking, towards the North I can reach Brussels, 763 Km away, but going South I can barely enter Spain which is only about 200 Km away!
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#345Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a difference in attitude between Americans and French when describing their countries: the French tend to regard overseas territories as more vitally part of their country than Americans do. Not sure why, possibly it was a deliberately-cultivated attitude by the government at some point, or maybe the difference arose organically. Meanwhile I think a lot of Americans kinda-unconsiously barely even consider Haw…
American here, I’d disagree about Hawaii and Alaska but agree about the non-state territories. The non-state territories being unable to vote and not having representation in the legislature means that they don’t get as much attention in national politics, so they’re less top of mind. (Yes, both of those situations suck and I wish we would change them.)
They don't have representation (in the US) and are unable to vote (in US elections) because they aren't US citizens and don't pay (US) taxes.
But if you're a US citizen living over there and you made money from sources other than from that territory, you would have to pay US taxes.
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#346Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, we agree we should only build where it makes sense. 1000 miles is quite far. That would be 5-6 hours! - NYC - Miami 1300 miles - NYC - Chicago 800 miles Then we have these: - NYC - Philly 92 miles - NYC - DC 225 miles - NYC - Boston 215 miles - NYC - Portland, ME 325 miles - NYC - Pittsburgh 380 miles - NYC - Cleveland 470 miles - Cleveland - Chicago 350 miles - St. Louis - Chicago 320 miles - Houston - Dallas 2…
The entire Great Lakes region is decently densely populated. - Columbus - Cleveland 142 miles - Columbus - Cincinnati 106 miles - Cleveland - Pittsburgh 134 miles - Cleveland - Toledo 114 miles - Columbus - Toledo 142 miles - Toledo - Detroit 58 miles (Cleveland, Columbus, & Cincinnati can share this) - Toledo - Chicago 244 miles (Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, & Detroit can share this) Theoretically, you can conne…
Indianapolis connects all these cities already (and with rail to some of them)... 2.8M
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#347Nice. It doesn't seem to play very nice with cities that have multiple stations. If you hover Paris, Gare de Lyon gets selected most of the time. But if you zoom in, you can select other Paris stations (e.g. Gare de L'Est) which leads to different results
And the station at CDG airport is quite hard to pick, but has much more penetration into the UK than Gare de Lyon.
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#348Earlier quoted context omitted.
South West connectivity is fine, you can get from Plymouth to Exeter to Bristol to Birmingham and up to Edinburgh without going anywhere near London.
At an average speed that makes a horse blush, and a capacity that is barely more than a Vauxhall corsa. Cross country routes are local trains masquerading as long distance, thus with ridiculous prices and the requirement to do split tickets. There’s nowhere near enough capacity on the line. Penzance to Exeter takes 3 hours - half the speed of a drive. From Exeter to Birmingham it’s another 2h30 at just 60mph average.…
You’d be hard pushed to drive Penzance to Exeter in 1hr30, more like 2 hours really. And whilst the train is slow the journey is lovely along the Exe estuary and then along the coast. Having said that it is a bit silly that when going from London to Penzance most of the time is spent on the final third of the journey past Exeter.
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#349Five hours, I assume, is the maximum amount of time an average person can enjoy sitting in a train. With overnight trains making a comeback, there are much more possibilities. I recently enjoyed falling asleep in Central Europe and waking up over the Alps near the sea. Trains are amazing.
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#350Little usability nitpick: it is really hard for me to see the connection Paris - London (less than 2.5 hours in real life thx to Eurostar). You need to very precisely mouse over Gare du Nord, which is hard, since it seems hidden by the other train station and airport nearby. Not sure if at a certain scale, one should see all the conenctions form all the train stations in Paris?
Taking into account metro and RER rides should fix this issue I think.