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Last month, the National Railways operator in France released a glimpse of designs for the fifth generation train, TGV Inous. (TGV means Train à Grande Vitesse, or “Great Speed Train”.A touch of humor“To space – in addition to new access features, such as a platform for wheelchair users that will enable them to climb without help. As for the outer train, a press statement from the operator has claimed its air design that will make it 20 percent more efficient than its predecessors.
The new trains will start service in 2026, on the Paris Marcel Road. But designs have already turned into a lot of heads, both at home in France or abroad. One of the common feelings of spectators in the United States was: Why can’t we get it?
The new lamp in the fifth generation TGV inoui. Yan Odic
High -speed railway It is a form of transportation between cities more efficient than driving, more convenient than flying, and can provide great savings in carbon emissions. (There is no standard definition of what is “high -speed”. In general, this appointment begins 120 miles per hour, which is almost translated into twice the speed of driving, but sometimes the tape is placed higher. It has the ability to save 1.26 to 3.62 GB of carbon dioxide by removing flights. Since the designs worthy of the new TGV Inous designs, the experience of taking the train itself can be desirable – even envy.
“I thought it looks beautiful, and it seemed somewhat different,” said Juan Boyce, a design in Amsterdam and UX with a personal rapprochement in public transport. He said: “It is great how they managed to make it future and my feet at the same time.” “Why don’t you take the train, if it seems like this?”
Boyce Share new interior TGV photos on XThe disclosure was “incredible” and narrated “the seventies of the last century feelings.” Soon the thread achieved millions of views – after two days of publication, adding a comment on the topic, saying: “15 million views of some pictures of the train, public transportation returned.”
Boyce said that many of the people who took care of his center were in the narrative point of view, as they were like, “Look at this, Wow, we need more of this! Amtrak, what to do?” It included some tweets from his post comments such as “You must be niceAnd “and”We can be ours, but you are playing“Even the wishful view of”Take one of these from Seattle to Missola, Montana with a bucket from Miller Light bottles“
Looking to the new TGV Inoui dining car. Pestero will include classic French dishes and also provides vegetable and plant options. Yan Odic
The United States, of course, has a network of trains. Acrak, in fact, appointment Passenger record in all times Last year, with more than 32 million customers who use their lines. And Acela, the pioneering amtrak train line, which runs from Washington, DC to Boston, technically. For a part of its way, it sails a height of 150 miles per hour. (TGV extends in France at speeds of up to 200 miles per hour. Its next fleet One of the new and improved trains that is scheduled to start the service this spring and will reach 160 miles per hour, with additional features such as the baccalaureate of the transferred head and ports in each seat.
Rick Harnish, CEO and co -founder of the company said High -speed railway alliance. Harnish said that Amrac has made improvements on the line steadily, but Congress did not give her the money necessary to create its offers to the next level. “The way Amtrak is organized, it is shipped by doing a lot with very little.”
It is unlikely to change, as did amtrak They were subject to auditing from the new Trump administrationWhile Elon Musk suggested that the rented company be privatized. Amtrak CEO, Stephen Gardner, resigned last month.
Meanwhile, Minister of Transport Sean Dove California high -speed railway initiative criticized -California high-speed railway project, which will connect the northern and southern parts of the state-while praising a special owned project: Brightline West, which will link the La suburb with Las Vegas.
The high -speed rail project in California began a decade ago, and the start of the service was planned between Los Angeles and San Francisco in 2020. It suffers from a lack of financing And the difficulty of obtaining lands for the various proposed track segments. Last year, the CEO of the project, Brian Kelly, participated in an updated work plan with legislators in the state He stressed the need for federal accuracy to continueT – Something now seems uncertain.
BRIGHTLINE, the company that stands behind the La-To-LAS Vegas project, is already running the railway in Florida. When she opened her first line there in 2018, between Miami and West Palm Beach, Kan The first draining train for the private sector in the United States in a century. The company line from Miami to Orlando, which was opened in 2023, is the second foundation after Aseella, reaching 125 miles per hour.
While its lines were funded in Florida almost completely by the company itself, Brightline I got a federal grant of $ 3 billion Under the two -party infrastructure law for its high -speed project in the West.
With the construction starting seriously this spring, the Brightline West is expected to be operated by the end of the contract. The company’s original goal was to get the train and run in a timely manner for the 2028 summer Olympiad in Los Angeles The officials said recently The new goal is to open the service by the end of 2028. The electric trains are expected to reach 200 mph, which may make them the first trains in the United States to suit the speeds that are accessed abroad.
“I think Brightline West can create a turning point,” Harnish said.
He said that there is another piece of momentum behind this turning point is that American travelers are taking high -speed railways in other countries. “You have people who take trains all over the world,” he said. “I imagine that there are senior high -power executives who go to their factories in China and take lead trains to reach them.”
Harnish and Buis highlight many things about the high -speed rail experience they find attractive. There is a speed, of course – it surpasses driving, while also avoiding the traveler from sitting in traffic, editing it to read a book, working on a laptop, or drinking a drink in the righteous car. Although trains cannot compete with the aircraft as much as the speed A to point B, there is time to be saved from avoiding airport security and travel time to the airport itself. The train stations are often located in dense population centers, not outside. Near the train stations and the lack of a long and exhausting security line also means that travelers can be somewhat more spontaneous, and buy a traffic ticket on the train in the train within minutes.
“The level of flexibility and comfort does not match,” said Harnish.
Shortly years ago, Harnish was in Rome to attend a working meeting. “In the previous week, I came across just watching a movie about the reason that a pizza from Naples is the best in the world,” he said. After his meeting, he found himself walking to the train station in the center of Rome. “Although I did not get a ticket, I was on a high -speed train within 15 minutes. Napoli within one hour. I wandered around Napoli, bought pizza from one of the places that were in the movie, returned to the train, got the train, and returned to Rome before nine o’clock,” Ratti. “What a wonderful pizza.”
Buis noted that traveling on the train can also provide an opportunity to see the city’s features that passengers from small windows do not get on aircraft or while driving the car. “With regard to the user experience, you feel more than when you take a plane – you see the landscape fly,” said Boyce. “If you take the train from Paris to Marseille, for example, you have beautiful views. You can see mountains, you can see the sea. It is a kind of magic in a way.”
Although sometimes Stick Scale In Americans on social media because of our lack of progress in modern railway systems, Buis hopes that the United States will start catching countries like France-perhaps one day, the United States will get its own pictures of the new delightful interior train to participate. “There is a lot of design talent in the United States, there is a lot of amazing manufacturing,” said Boyce. “One day, that will happen.”
Claire Elise Thompson
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The fastest speed train in the world It is Shanghai MaglifIn the picture below, which connects the outskirts of Shanghai with the international airport of the city. However, the train is not a traditional steel on steel-in reality, it is the first high-speed commercial train in the world using magnetic lifting (and thus “Maglev”). It works at an amazing maximum 286 miles per hour.
