@LilahTovMoon@tech.lgbtThe sad thing about this map is that it's wrong. The sections in yellow in the US have a top speed of 150 MPH (241 km/h) so the US should be shown with no high speed rail on this map 
@LilahTovMoon I still don't know why the train hype and the autistic cliché of "autistics love trains" is so present in the US, while in Europe we have some of the coolest trains.
Maybe the "choo choo" is still present in the US at this point.
@LilahTovMoon@tech.lgbt for Americans the maps should also be to scale to highlight just how the eastern seaboard compares to europe's density just to rub in how much of a failure our country is in this area
@LilahTovMoon then again as much as I enjoy drinking at 300+ I would be happy to have a 241kmh limit everywhere tomorrow if it came with unified tracks and ticketing.
@LilahTovMoon Germany these days considers everything > 220 km/h as "high speed". There are "InterCity" and "InterCityExpress" (ICE) trains, and the regular InterCity is not "High Speed", and goes up to 220. ICE used to go up to 300 km/h (330 in exceptional cases, to make up for lost time), but the latest generation has a maximum speed of only 230.
What I also find remarkable is that the only operational high speed rail line in the UK used to operate French "TGV" train sets, and now uses Siemens Velaro, which are basically German ICE 3, but no British train sets.
Wisely, Japan is not shown, it would embarrass even Europe.
@LilahTovMoon Wut’s a high speed train?
We barely have low speed ones out West.
@crest, @bsdtv and @robn attend WAY too many online meetings from these mythical things.
@robn@social.lol@dexter @LilahTovMoon @crest @bsdtv hah. I attend no meetings from high-speed rail, which does not exist in Australia despite decades of "discourse". I also attend no meetings from Melbourne's low-to-mid-speed rail (max 110km/h), because cell coverage is patchy af.