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Km/h speeds always sound so impressive until you realise it’s not mph.
Who the fuck uses mph
British Empire master race.
mph means absolutely nothing to people living outside the burger empire, you might as well be saying ferrets per hour
160 is fast?
Not particularly, but it’s important progress for a country with essentially zero inter-city trains running.
Such a pity too, the shape of the country just really seems to make so much sense for trains - just run a big north-south line and connect basically everything anyone would care about.
Sure is compared to most trains in US.
The US is a poor standard for high speed rail, or even trains in general. A better comparison would be with France, where trains can go up to 320kmph.
Something also built by china might be a good comparison. The new high speed trains in Indonesia (also built by china) regularly go up to 350 kmph.
Chile is also… Not as flat as France.
Class 6 and above are pretty zippy
and about as common as a bigfoot
