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02/28/10(Sun)01:39 No. 156150 >>156129 you mean
public transportation? that transports the public?>>156133 Its maximum is
240km/h, 40km/h over the internationally recognized minimum for
highspeed rail. But it never gets anywhere near this, operating
usually at 90-120km/h depending on schedules and track conditions -
which varely a lot because it has to use private freight railways which
give it a low priority, state commuter railways that also give it a low
priority and in some places are too close to one another preventing use
of the tilt for turns, old infrastructure like Depression-era bridges
and overhead that were never designed for highspeed operation, signals
not designed for highspeed use, and most importantly of all tracks that
were never designed for highspeed use - it needs to be straight, very
gradual turning radius. It does its ~700km route in a bit more than 7
hours, Chinas recently unveiled highspeed rail line does a ~900km route
in 3 and a bit hours.