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Railway network in the United States at the start of the US Civil War (sopuli.xyz)
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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

To be fair, we're using really fucking old technology so it's not surprising that it's that much slower.

If we had proper high speed rail, like the Shinkansen, it would be much shorter.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There is also the fact for a 450 mile trip you have to go 2300 miles.

[–] jnod4@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What people with epilepsy or other conditions do?

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

suffer in silence
but also hopefully they have friends and family who will chaffeur them, and greyhound buses exist, airplanes too.