I knew someone who would take a 6 hour direct TGV to a southern city. The line got cancelled and now she has to switch in another major city that's not Paris, but the layover if short and she misses her connection if the train is too late. So now she builds in a buffer of two hours, but that just adds to the time she's travelling. And neither of the two trains are TGV.
Very possible under less dumb capitalism, Japan and France have great high speed rail.
I was looking at rail in Australia the other day and a train from Brisbane to Melbourne takes 26 hours while a car only takes 15 and a half hours :/
Although to be fair we don’t have the population density to make it as economically viable as other countries but it should still be better.
In France, if you want to go to or from Paris, you're golden. If you don't, well, it's gonna take ten hours and you may be going through Paris anyway.
That’s disappointing, I’d heard TVG was really good.
I knew someone who would take a 6 hour direct TGV to a southern city. The line got cancelled and now she has to switch in another major city that's not Paris, but the layover if short and she misses her connection if the train is too late. So now she builds in a buffer of two hours, but that just adds to the time she's travelling. And neither of the two trains are TGV.