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Exactly I live 600km from the capital. 1 hour flight. Still takes me more then half a day to get to my destination.

I ride my motorcycle most of the times 6 hours door to door. With pit stops on the way. Trains are slow here but I take the sleep train. Get on train 10pm go to sleep and arrive at 5am in the morning :)

I prefer these latter 2 over flying.

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One more reason to just invest more in good high speed train infrastructure.

https://www.chronotrains.com/?zoom=4.4&lng=4.85&lat=49.23&st...

It would only take a couple of terrorist incidences on the train to make the experience as painful as flying already is.

Trains can be and have been blown up. But that's mostly harmless compared to the horrors that could be done to a fully occupied road tunnel with a few well coordinated trucks. Should we stop building roads?

Planes are an exceptional target because they can be deviated to foreign countries or to dramatic impact sites and because are so isolated while in the air. Neither applies to trains.

Also perfect train security doesn't protect against something on the track, and you can't adequately protect thousands of miles of track. You can reduce, but not eliminate, the risk.

A plane is a self-contained system and most people don't have access to surface-to-air missiles.

Poland doesn’t have these problems, I wonder why?

Sleeper trains are absolutely the superior choice. Instead of wearing yourself down from the journey, schedule it so you wake up at your destination in the morning.

I dream (heh) of a proper pan-european sleeper train network.

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