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briandear on Feb 13, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: High-speed rail taking shape even as opponents see...

As a tourist, that trip can be nice, but burning and entire day to travel for business?

Imagine the improvement in quality of life if we could get on a supersonic airplane and be in NYC from SFO in two hours.

ghaff on Feb 13, 2017 [–]

So I save 4 hours out of a 10ish hour door to door trip for me. Nice, sure. But hardly a dramatic quality of life improvement.

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