Paris to Bordeaux in 2:04
August 12th, 2018 at 8:47:14 PM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | July 2, 2017 the 190 mile stretch of LGV from Tours to Bordeaux was finished. The Paris to Tours section was completed in 1989 You can now travel the 350 mile trip in 2 hours and 4 minutes (although most runs are 2 hours and 8 minutes) |
August 12th, 2018 at 9:22:13 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 | So the train goes 176 mph? No thanks, a disaster waiting to happen. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
August 13th, 2018 at 2:33:13 AM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 |
Come on. The French built the Le Car. The President is a fink. |
August 13th, 2018 at 3:15:47 AM permalink | |
Aussie Member since: May 10, 2016 Threads: 2 Posts: 458 | Perfectly safe. You don’t even realise you’re going that fast. I just went around Italy on trains going just as fast and you only realise when you look up at one of the screens they have in the carriages and it displays the speed. |
August 13th, 2018 at 8:06:25 AM permalink | |
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 | What is the speed of the high-speed train I took from Zurich to Paris? Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
August 13th, 2018 at 10:11:21 AM permalink | |
Dalex64 Member since: Mar 8, 2014 Threads: 3 Posts: 3687 | Looks like the TGV Lyria train, 200mph "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
August 13th, 2018 at 10:40:54 AM permalink | |
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
Thanks. The ride was super smooth. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
August 13th, 2018 at 11:02:04 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
And the Titanic was unsinkable. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
August 14th, 2018 at 2:24:40 AM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
France seems to be the best connected country in Europe.Probably why they are #1 country for international tourism. The old Paris to Bordeaux nonstop was 3h14m and the new one is 2h04 (although 2h08m seems to be more the norm). There are 4 nonstops per day and several more that make stops and add on from 20 minutes to an hour. The elimination of one hour in either direction makes a day trip much more feasible. I wonder if domestic tourism is going to increase. Bordeaux is too small for year round transAtlantic flights, but they do have seasonal nonstops to Montreal. Primera Air is now offering nonstops from Newark Airport to Paris on single aisle jets which they advertise as starting at $97 one way, but they seem to be really starting at about $400 round trip to the passenger with no luggage. Although there are flights from Montreal to smaller airports in France, there seems to be only a single seasonal flight from JFK to Nice on Delta that is not flying to Paris. In 1957, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Italy, and West Germany signed the Treaty of Rome, which created the European Economic Community (EEC) and established a customs union. Italy would have been the poor man, but you wonder if they should have stopped growing the EU at that point |
August 14th, 2018 at 11:46:52 AM permalink | |
Aussie Member since: May 10, 2016 Threads: 2 Posts: 458 |
And aeroplanes crash too, as do cars and pretty much any form of transport. What’s your point? That you should curl up inside your padded bunker for the rest of your life to avoid any potential for disaster, however tiny? Please! |