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U.S. lawmaker says France's bullet train has reinforced her belief California needs high-speed rail
A California lawmaker who rode on France's new bullet train at a record 357 mph ( 574.8 kph) said the experience has reinforced her conviction that California needs to develop high-speed rail.
"It felt like we were ready to take off on the runway in a plane," the San Francisco Democrat said in a telephone interview from France. "That steady acceleration ... feeling and force."
Ma is part of a delegation of a half dozen lawmakers who are in France this week, in part to examine the French high-speed rail system as California considers building a 700-mile (1120-kilometer) system of its own to carry passengers at speeds of more than 200 mph (322 kph).
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