In 1990 the Taiwan's
government completed a feasibility study for a high-speed rail line
in the western corridor of the island. The study found that in a comparison of potential solutions to
traffic problems
in the corridor, a high-speed rail line would offer the highest transit
volume,
lowest land use, highest energy savings, and lowest pollution. Today 345
km line connects national capital Taipei in the North with the
Kaohsiung in the South in 96 minutes, with the top speed of 300 km/h.
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.... The distance between Vancouver and Kamloops in British Columbia Canada is almost exactly the same - the train takes it in "swift" 9 hours (if not stuck in the middle of nowhere).
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