intercity

I'm not even sure how you could take intercity-only tickets and as far as I know there are no intercity trains going from Lille to the south.

Things like in-road inductive charging on motorways would make intercity travel possible even on a tiny battery.

Outside of a few lines in the Northeast it's not really an option for intercity travel.

You would really compare German intercity travel to Acela (i.e., rail service on the Boston-NYC-Philly-DC route)?

Because the majority of train journeys in the UK are commutes into metro areas at peak time rather than intercity journeys.

Virgin Trains, running only long-distance intercity journeys, is compared to London Overground, which runs trains within London every 4-6 minutes for commuters.

Public funding for intercity passenger rail is equally ridiculous, at least in America.

Actually, for shorter distances, there are good intercity bus lines in the US.

All the major intercity routes in the UK run at a profit and these operate at 125-140mph, which is high speed by US standards.

It uses an electric hovercraft in an soft-vacuum sealed tube that is integral to the design in order to achieve high speeds for intercity travel.

We still need to separate commuter rail, regional and intercity.

Instead I noticed that an intercity train would be passing through this station.

In the US, where intercity trips above a couple hundred miles are typically by air, six days out would be "last-minute" for most people, so that's my frame of reference.

Intercity is smallest on the basis of ridership but it makes up with distance travelled, ticket prices and economic importance.