@ffeth @AndiPopp wrong. High speed rail competes with planes. Which is even worse than cars.

We need more trains in general. Both high speed ones and slower, regional ones.

@fluepke Where I live (France), high speed railways are huge impassable noisy gaps in the landscape.

We have the inconvenience, we don't have the stations.

For instance, if I take the high speed train to Lyon, it means going to Paris by fast train, changing train station, taking the high speed train and... seing my town again at 250km/h 2 hours and half after I left it.

@AndiPopp

@ffeth @AndiPopp France and its focus on Paris … as if Paris was the center of the world …

In Germany we are slowly but steadily growing our HSR network, that interconnects major cities. It's more of a mesh than a star topology. Between any two larger cities there is a direct HSR connection, which is awesome.