• Dupree878@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Can you drive 120km/h in those areas if you don’t take the train?

    I don’t take the train here even though I have one because it takes too long. A 3-4 hr car trip takes all day with the train having to makes its stops.

    The closest large city is 50 miles (80km) away. I can be there in 45min to an hour depending on traffic. The train takes almost three hours.

    Also, there is no public transportation to get to the train stop which is on the bad side of town and there’s no station to wait inside.

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      You know the difference? I don’t have to actually drive when I take the train. I can do literally anything else, especially if wireless is available.

      It’s like people who say, “I don’t need a dishwasher, I can wash them in half the time!”. Yeah, sure, but I don’t have to fucking wash them. Not to mention the environmental and health benefits which, incidentally, works for trains too.

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      7 hours ago

      I can go to Paris (500 km) by train in about three hours. That train is musch faster thatn you’d be allowed to drive.

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      Hungary where you can basically go 140 legally 💀. Now i live in sweden and its 100 most places but the train connections are shit where i live.