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TAR 20 Transport
theschnauzers:
apskip, would teams necessarily drive to either? Production could control things by having them take trains (as, IIRC, they have done in past legs in Germany when the next leg was outside of the European Alps.
apskip:
the schnauzers,
You are quite right, so I have summarized the most relevant train trips from Fussen to both Frankfurt Airport and to Munich Airport. To Frankfurt is complicated, as there are 2 to 4 separate trains involved. I am not going into the details of that (those that want or need it can find them on German Rail), but here are the relevant trips:
601a - 702a 717a - 840a 851a - 1101a
706a - 857a 936a - 1206p
806a - 914a 938a - 945a 1003a - 106p
905a - 1057a 1103a - 123p 135p 206p
1006a - 1052a 1115a - 1135a 1203p - 306p
To Munich the situation is a bit better, but even there 3 legs (including one for 2 minutes) are required for the 3 hour trip (not 2 hours as previously assumed for driving):
601a - 708a 715a - 808a 819a - 821a 831a- 906a
702a - 857a 905p 955p
806a - 1005a walk 10 minutes to S-bahn 1023a - 1106
905a - 957a 1006a - 1109a
It looks to me that the rail approach will have major waiting time from pit stop release to the first train of the day. If it were a decision up to me, I would take a car despite the fact that I have rented a car once in several decades for travel within Europe, strongly preferring the train trips.
Jimmer:
But as we saw in Leg 5, driving would clearly have been a better choice but TAR still chose trains.
apskip:
nvm
apskip:
Jimmer25,
It's possible you missed the explanation for that (see below). WRP elected trains so they could drastically cut back the lead of the leading teams with the Hours of Operation in Ehrwald. I suppose they could have done the same with cars, but Art and JJ definitely would have been able to get there ahead of when the HOO took effect
My post #105 in this thread stated that:
"All this contrasts with a predictable 6 hours from Torino to Fussen by car, arriving around 0700 for Art and JJ and 0900 for Rachel and David. The unknown is the weather on that day. If driving conditions were below the best required for those mountain roads, then I would have ordered all teams to fly. Maybe they were given the choice, most unusual for the Amazing Race but World Race Productions does try to be unpredictable.
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