New comment by mazu3 in "Two high-speed trains collide near Toledo, Spain"

mazu3 — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:23:49 +0000

I think you have to talk about how this is measured. Their network is huge, but frequencies are low and the maintenance costs per KM of track are very high relative to ridership. If you just think about the metric of KM of high-speed track, it's true, Spain has a larger network than, for example, Japan. But Japan is sending high-speed trains down some of its lines every 3 and a half minutes! Nothing remotely like that is happening in Spain.

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