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		intellix on Oct 13, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant s... As someone who's been to both China and Japan I'd say railway is far ahead in China than the rest of the world. Again, according to GPT, the price per kilometre between them is €0.03-0.06 in China vs €0.15-0.26 in Japan. I know Japan has a lot of high speed rail coverage but so does China and the difference in price is absolutely insane. Rail between Beijing and Shanghai for example has an average speed of 300kmh. I believe their high speed network is vaster than Japan's.

zdw on Oct 13, 2024 [–]

Most of these numbers are probably due to differences in wages and the size of the respective countries.

smrq on Oct 13, 2024 | [–]

If they aren't completely fabricated.

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