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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

Hiawatha Pete

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3. 160kph is 100 miles per hour.

Reply to Alexander Of Assyria (Original post)

Sun Jan 29, 2023, 11:22 AM

Jan 2023

There are services in North America that meet or exceed that.

Amtrak's Acela, as well as all electrically operated regional and long distance trains in the Northeast corridor routinely exceed 100mph/160kph.

Here is the GPS we had setup in our room on our trip on Amtrak's Silver Meteor (from my website https://northamericabyrail.info/ ):

Southbound:

And return trip northbound:

Here in Canada, track speed along much of VIA Rail's Ontario-Quebec corridor is 100mph/160kph (youtube video-not mine):

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China builds high-speed rail to their poor neighbors, Gruenemann Jan 2023 #1

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Also plan to connect Indian Ocean to Atlantic through central Africa, road and rail...huge boost Alexander Of Assyria Jan 2023 #5

160kph is 100 miles per hour. Hiawatha Pete Jan 2023 #3

Comparative clunkers. First world nations looks out, third world has equivalent stuff now! Alexander Of Assyria Jan 2023 #4

If only we knew where the problem lay... Hiawatha Pete Jan 2023 #6