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110km = 68 miles (or about one hour of car travel on many US interstate highways)
Something something Americans will do anything but travel by train for short distances.
Edit: apparently y'all are unfamiliar with the meme, and as such taking my comment at 100% sincerity instead of the intended 38%. Also I'm an American myself, so the only intended disrespect was of the self-depreciating variety.
have you seen the state of their rail system? Americans might be dumb but they're not fucking stupid.
If this was 1903 they'd bitch that the Wright Brothers could have just walked to the other end of Kitty Hawk.