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London, Paris, Seoul Show Commuting Power of Fast Regional Rail
Growing cities around the world are creating “rapid regional rail” systems that allow residents to commute across metro areas at high speeds. Will the US get on board?
In London, the 2022 debut of a transit line stretching the width of the metropolis quickly attracted more than half a million riders per day and promptly lifted the entire UK’s rail ridership above pre-pandemic levels. In Seoul, a blazing-fast subway that can exceed 100 miles (161 kilometers) per hour has cut travel times from the southern suburbs to the central business district by a factor of four. Their function is “to reduce the length of commutes into urban areas to greatly expand the travelsheds around cities and increase their effective size,” Gupta wrote in a recent Substack post.
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