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@dr_jo_mue@troet.cafe @xyla@shitpost.trade lol, okay, I'll bite I travel frequently between Berlin and Paris by train. It takes almost 6 hours to do Berlin-Strasbourg (about 750km), and less than 2 hours to do Strasbourg-Paris (about 500km). The effective speed on that route is therefore 125 km/h on the German section, and 250 km/h on the French section. (This is for the express train that only stops in Frankfurt, Mannheim, Karlsruhe. If you take other trains the German section is even slower.) That's why some people consider German trains to be slow as fuck. I hope from the bottom of my heart that it'll get better once the big infrastructure works that are currently underway are complete, and that it can bring the Berlin-Paris trip to 6 hours or less - ideally with more than a single departure per day at 7am, and more like the comparable Lille-Marseille route (1000km in less than 5 hours, with 5+ departures per day). Oh also don't get me started on comfort in ICE trains - I'd pick 2nd class TGV over 1st class ICE any day, mostly because of the size and position of the tablets.