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>that is on the slow end for high speed rail, maybe average speed, and that doesn't "moderately" beat car travel especially when you consider how often you run into traffic, stop lights, slower streets etc.
That's approximately the average speed of HSR networks of countries that "do HSR right" like Spain and Japan.

You generally only run into traffic on highways at highway interchanges during rush hour, and it usually clears up after about 5-10 min max. After that I regularly go 130-150kph on Canada's 400 series highways, just by going with the pace of traffic. You also get off the highway and go directly do your actual destination without disembarking and hailing a cab or waiting to be picked up. You will also have to go through local traffic in a cab or bus when you get off the train station, so trying to make the argument that local traffic is some kind of major downside to driving is faulty reasoning.

>this is not really that relevant unless the stations are really bad, yes driving is sometimes more convenient and so is air travel for really far distances but if you look at something like paris->nice it's half the time to go by train and way less hassle than flying for slightly less travel time.
Paris to Nice by train without transfers is 6 hours, by plane it's 1.5 hours

>just not true, highway capacity never catches up with car travel for any large amount of people due to how space inefficient it is. you named 3 massive areas of earth where it works and say it doesn't work because the US sucks ass, not because it's inherently inferior. not having to drive and being able to do shit and get work done on your trip is so much better than you realize, and trains are better for the environment and safer.
Most places where it's built it's inefficient. There are some areas where it makes sense to reduce car and air traffic but those are already over-built. The US is correct about this; HSR from Boston to DC makes sense, doesn't really make sense elsewhere.

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