Man, having some high speed trains might be useful right about now.

Surely high speed trains suffer from network wide monitoring outages too? I would imagine they're susceptable to similar issues.

Yes - see German trains going down for that reason a few months back:

pkulak 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Sure, but having a _second_ way to get places can only help.

hcal 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

still, it would be nice to have an alternative as a backup.

	▲	bdangubic 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
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panick21_ 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

But likely not at the same time as the planes.