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Everything is driving distance and simultaneously, America is “too big” for high speed rail
High speed rail would make such a difference. If you tried to make the same trip as pictured with Amtrak, you’d probably be looking at double the travel time at least.
I can confirm I’m from Missouri. Though to be fair where I live the closest major city is more than a hour drive away. Excessive driving is just an unfortunate part of life in the Midwest shit hole.
The Midwest is so flat, it’s basically gagging for some tracks all over it.
I imagine the main concern was if there’s enough population to use it effectively but that’s surely not an issue now.
I live in VA and the closest big city is an hour away.
Europeans : The Arsenal - Chelsea games are too far to drive between
And anyone who thinks otherwise clearly hasn’t driven in London
If you want a game that’s possibly within driving distance, you’re looking at Liverpool v Everton
maybe I should have put in spurs, since they’re rivals.
TBF some of us like road trips.
I’m a Floridian that spent the last 20 years living in Europe now that I’m back to the states I’m making up for my lack of road trips in the last couple of decades.
This winter I was making the trip from VA to SW Michigan ~10-12 hours one way twice a month, now that my parents are back in MI I do it once a month.
If it was train trips, I think I’d really enjoy them, even if they were 1.5x as long. Legroom, card games with travel mates, traveling to the drinks car, etc.
It’s really incredible how easy HSR should be to build for most of the country and how completely hard it would fuck for so many people. Instead, we do unlimited airline shareholder subsidies and rebuild eight lane interstates every ten years
I did do about 11h drive, from Reims to Nice; wouldn’t do it twice :/
No way! i did a similar trip but from Paris to Nice. I actually kinda enjoyed it. But that’s probably because i enjoy driving.
“Possibility,” in that you can get from one to the other before the next game starts, and even sleep a bit, sure.
“Legitimate,” I dunno. Assuming the series goes to seven games, that is almost 3,000 miles to put on your car in a month. There’s nothing “legitimate” about that.
The family used to do trips of similar length seasonally to visit family in the Northeast and South depending.
