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France unveils ‘incredible’ new high-speed TGV trains (edition.cnn.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That's the case in any country with high speed rail: tracks are the devils of the details.

I mean in the end, especially with a country as small as France, there's not a whole lot of difference between 320 and 350km/h. (I mean going one end of China to the other and that difference adds up, but not one end of France to the other.)

But ... what's stopping them from making the track changes needed?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Too expensive to rebuild half the tracks to allow higher speeds.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The cost and the downtime.