İstanbul as the capital on a map community in the big 26 🥀
It seems about right, I’ve done the trip from Barcelona to Madrid, it took six hours.
Istanbul is not a capital…someone already said it.Do that in Australia and you’re possibly in the next state
What’s with this Mercator projection? GB is giant.
I didn’t catch that. Spain is twice as big as the UK, for example, and about 30% larger than Germany or 40% larger than Poland, or 12.5 times larger than Denmark, which looks like a 1/4 or 1/5 the size.
Now let’s see one by train from those same cities.
Here’s a rough equivalent of the OPs image, but with trains
London to Dublin, Ireland in 7 hrs??
There’s a ferry
That’s surprisingly specific.
By the way: This “how far can I get from a specific point within time xy?” is called isochrones.
Very interesting when you move somewhere and want to know what’s in range.
Racist garbage. This joke of Spaniards having really long siestas is overdone.
You sure you’re in the right place?
The sarcasm went unnoticed.
Uh… can you explain the joke? I’m not sure what it’s supposed to be even now.
TIL about the channel tunnel!
yeah it’s neat but you don’t technically drive through it. You get the car on a train. Still cool though.
Get in loser we are invading Belarus!
Making Poland great again?
Istanbul is not a capital city. Capital of Turkey is Ankara. Obligatory: Erdogan is a fucking twat
btw, Constantinople¹ is also not the capital. Why they changed it, though, I can’t say.
¹ nople
Its nobodies business but the Turks.
I mean,
even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Thank you :)
Man its easy to forget how fucking microscopic Europe is.
Yeah, it means we can get anything we want in just a half hour drive.
You can drive for 8 hours in North America and still have no healthcare.
Depends on how close you are to the Mexican border.
That, and the crazy good infrastructure. Travelling 1000km in Poland is a completely different story than travelling the same distance in the Balkans
The new map projection from the UN is like a memento mori for it
I live in Florida and could just about make it to Miami in 8 hours.
My daughter just came to visit me in New Mexico from Maryland. 2,000 miles / 3218 km, it is over 24 hours of driving.
Does your daughter have a lead foot? 2000 miles is way over 24 hours of driving and that assumes no extended breaks or heavy traffic. Simple math says to drive 2000 miles in 24 hours you need to average over 83 miles an hour?
I would guess that a more likely average speed for a drive that long, assuming multiple drivers trading off and not stopping for more than fuel and bathroom breaks, would be about 60mph average. That would take a bit over 33 hours.
I drove from Cairns to Brisbane in one hit when I was in Australia. 21 hours of open highway. Only half the state covered.
I drove with a friend 13 hours across Oz to the coast; looked at map was a tiny little bit of the bottom part…FFS Oz is huge.
Drive 13hrs in NZ and you would go from Wellington to somewhere in Northland; or the whole length of the South Island.
13 hours would get you from the Wellington CBD to Cape Reinga, which is as far north as you can get on public roads. 8 would get you past Auckland.
Indeed.
Going further south, to Red Rocks or even to Island Bay, makes the cape 14 hrs away. Basically the longest trip on “nice” roads in the North Island. Could make it 14 1/2 hrs if you take it to Cape Palliser; but that is basically the limit in NZ.
I’ll say it again, FFS Oz is huge.
Now do public transport (not @ OP, just stating a desire for a railway+bus+foot alternative
you wont believe it : https://sopuli.xyz/post/35479366
The US rail system is really sparse, huh
that isn’t including time; I understand that layovers make it hard, but they are important for comparing cars to public transit
A lot more direct routes are on the brink of popping up in Europe, EU launched a very ambitious 2035 and 2040 plan.
We’ve already seen a few routes like Copenhagen - Prague pop up, due to expected new infrastructure (Femern Tunnel) landing soon.
Once EU legitimately builds high speed rails connecting all European capitals, I bet ya we’re going to be able to cross the continent with 3 layovers. As long as we stick to larger cities, add 2-3 stops for local connections if you want to go to smaller areas and 2-3 stops if you start in a smaller area.
Sources for the EU high level plan:
https://transport.ec.europa.eu/transport-modes/rail/high-speed-rail-plan_en
Is being able to have it all part of one itinerary part of the plan?
Ah yes the Polish capital of Poland
At least they got it correct with the Vatican City being the capital of Italy
Would be cool if Warsaw was called Po though
Po is a river in Italy.
And the german word for Butt. It’s short for the latin word Podex, meaning “farter”.
