Oulu is like 500km from civilization. You need those high speed rail tracks.
We built our own civilization! With blackjack and hookers! And world class (or well above world class, since average world class tends to suck) cycling infrastructure!
I'm thinking we should fund a group tour for every Canadian mayor to go to Oulu in winter just to experience that.
I went to Jyväskylä and all it got me was some fun time at the playground in Mäki-Matti, a nice tree climbing Geocache, enlightening times at the Alvar Aalto Museum and the first beach trip (Tuomiojärven) in my daughters life
So is the pointe that the jetliners stopped servicing smaller airports?
This is a similar thing as some of Xeno's paradoxes.
The first pane says length of flight. Last pane says length of trip.
Unless you lived every close to the airport, you never managed the trip in 2.5 hours with the older planes.
Taking the fast train from Heathrow to Paddington was a revelation for me. Even the LIRR from JFK to Penn Station is good. Not fast but very consistent. LAX is like this cartoon. It’s only gotten worse.
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