When all roads (well, tracks) lead to Paris, and the provincial ones wither away while TGVs speed between cities.

"The railway carriages .. are veritable museum pieces, designed in the 1970s. Today it takes half an hour longer to travel from #Limoges to Paris than it did back then."

https://www.economist.com/europe/2022/12/11/france-needs-better-slow-trains-not-just-fast-ones #France #rail #trains #rural #urbanrural