This is about the same distance from Washington DC to New Orleans, Paris to Warsaw, or Berlin to St. Petersburg, or Portland to Los Angeles.

  • Arthur BesseA
    4·
    3 years ago

    The road distance from NY to Chicago is similar to the distance from Beijing to Shanghai (~1300km vs ~1200km). There is one daily direct train from NY to Chicago, with a travel time of 19.5 hours. There are currently 30 daily trains from Beijing to Shanghai, with travel times of 4.5 to 6.5 hours.

    🥂 to China if they can get that down to 2.5 hours, but, they’re already living in the future compared to the US and Europe.

  • AgreeableLandscape
    4·
    3 years ago

    Will seriously eliminate the need for commercial flights between major cities. Good riddance.

  • pingveno
    51·
    3 years ago

    Sweet. It’s good to see China making solid investments in trains now instead of going pretty much all in on cars.

    • Muad'Dibber@lemmygrad.mlOP
      2·
      3 years ago

      Its being planned, but not created yet. But its exciting that these maglev trains are almost getting as fast as planes.