Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 4/27/06, Jack C. Herron <jackherron@cox.net> wrote: > A comparable rail system would have to be 6 times the size > of the european system. While the continuing thread seems to concentrate > on > metro transportation, your comment on air travel seems to invoke a larger > picture than a commute within Pittsburgh. The problems are simply not > comparable. There's a lot to this. Russia has the same problems as the US because of its sheer size. It would have been nice to have retained the link between some major cities by rail. Perhaps those links are still there, for all I know. I'm thinking of Amtrak in the midwest. But your seclusion of the the former USSR and some Slavic countries ... it doesn't hold up. You can't rule out Poland, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary (not Slavic of course), or Bulgaria. Germany is a pretty big country too. So I suspect you will have to put the center considerbly east of Paris. Paris feels far west for me. Daniel