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Originally Posted by risingstar3110
So there's no special security on shinkansen comparing to normal trains? Do you have to send your luggage for security check like with airplanes?
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No. It's really just taking a train, except after a few hours you're suddenly in the other side of Japan.
The USA's problems with the maglev stuff is more complicated than just not building them though. The thing with Japan, France, and the rest of the
civilized world (*cough*) is that when you get off that Shinkansen or TGV or the London-Paris Eurostar, you have something else to ride on to go from the big train station in the center of the city to where you need to be. In the USA, what's the point of catching a ride on that speedy SF-LA maglev if you can't go anywhere in the cities themselves without a car? (Though to be fair it's not like air travel don't have that problem, but that's why Americans often do road trips instead...)
Metro
then maglev, and by the angels Los Angeles really, really needs a metro.