[ShellfishMeme]

As much as I'd love to have the Transrapid, I think for this specific case the ~100 minutes are already pretty much making Hamburg - Berlin flights obsolete, especially with the airports not being super central. You'd need around 40 minutes just to get to Berlin HBF from BER.

I don't even think there are any direct flights between Hamburg and Berlin since it's really not worth it.

[pastage]

It has had effects on other projects; it would make more sense to build high speed in the Fehmarn Belt tunnel and you could be in Copenhagen and Sweden in two to three hours. Would be nice for us Swedes at least. My point is that everything over an hour is quite a long time.