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LHR/MEL/Europe FF
(FWIW) The L2 bus is now RMB24. Usually it's pretty good but last weekend took well over 90 minutes in a hot bus withouth aircon or airflow (there was no opportunity to get up to alert the driver, who had his wondow open). The traffic was backed up all the way to the Lupu bridge. (No accidents of anything, just slow.)
Definitely a lot more fun.
I recall taking it during the time where it reaches maximum speed, something like 400 kph? We were passing by the cars alongside the freeway so quickly, it literally appeared as if they were in a standstill. It was really quite a thrill, especially the first several times. On my next trip, may do it again, just for fun.
Maglev saves about 30 minutes?