{"id":590,"date":"2013-12-14T16:38:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T16:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=590"},"modified":"2013-12-15T16:40:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T16:40:34","slug":"bullet-train-service-linking-spain-to-france-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/bullet-train-service-linking-spain-to-france-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"Bullet train service linking Spain to France opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Bullet-train.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-591\" alt=\"Bullet train\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Bullet-train-300x181.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Bullet-train-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Bullet-train.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A high-speed rail service linking Spain and France has been inaugurated that will cut the journey time between Barcelona and Paris by half.<br \/>\nUp until now the train journey between these two cities lasted some 12 hours, but the new tracks will enable passengers to complete it in just over six.<br \/>\nSpain\u2019s tourism statistics agency Frontur says travelers make 82 million trips between the two countries annually, mostly by car.<br \/>\nSpain\u2019s train operator RENFE said Sunday it hopes to lure some air-travel passengers.<br \/>\nThe service, which opened Sunday, will also provide bullet trains to cities like Madrid, Marseille, Toulouse and Lyon.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/bullet-train-service-linking-spain-to-france-opens\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A high-speed rail service linking Spain and France has been inaugurated that will cut the journey time between Barcelona and Paris by half. Up until now the train journey between these two cities lasted some 12 hours, but the new tracks will enable passengers to complete it in just over six. Spain\u2019s tourism statistics agency &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}