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I don't know what the train system's like in France, but if it's anything resembling Italy I can understand people not taking their car to travel long distances. Where I was they have "fast" trains every 20 minutes, and it's dirt cheap. Here, inter metropolitan train is positioned in the transportation market as being upscale, so it's 50% or so more expensive than the bus (which is already expensive imho), and it's not faster than the bus because it frequently have to stop to let freight trains pass.
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