Eric Herot
๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐#France makes it official: take the high- speed train, donโt fly
France bans short haul domestic flights in favour of train travel
kaeff@straphanger meanwhile Transavia and air France are reinforcing short haul connections due to the SNCF strikes in December ๐ข
Philip BoardmanReminds me that we have no high speed rail connecting Australiaโs capital cities.
Voradams 
@pbrdmn @straphanger @kcarruthers I know you are being snarky, but there are answers...
1) coastal geography is not suitable for high speed rail.
2) rail lines where placed hundred years ago or more.
3) HSR track needs a lot of grading and engineering to be flat, straight and feel joint free
4) no one wants to pay for it
5) legacy transport don't want to change or competition.
Joanna Mendelssohn@Voradams @pbrdmn @straphanger @kcarruthers you left out the key point: Lobbying by Qantas & airport owners, who make so much money out of the Sydney-Melbourne-Brisbane corridor.
What is also appalling is that the vested interestsโ opposition to rail has led to even greater congestion & suburban sprawl in the big cities. High speed rail, with stopovers at key regional centres would improve the quality of life for many
What is also appalling is that the vested interestsโ opposition to rail has led to even greater congestion & suburban sprawl in the big cities. High speed rail, with stopovers at key regional centres would improve the quality of life for many
Kobe652@straphanger at least fewer planes will have a chance to fall on our 56 nuclear reactors.
BlueBoysRGo@straphanger cโest fantastique.
Thorsten Sterk@straphanger In 2020 the French climate assembly had recommended to abolish all flights between cities that are linked by a train journey of less than 4 hours. https://www.buergerrat.de/en/news/climate-assembly-adopts-recommendations/
Climate Assembly adopts recommendations
At their last meeting on 19-21 June 2020, the members of the French Climate Assembly "Convention Citoyenne pour le Climat" adopted 149 recommendations. They include far-reaching proposals for areas such as the economy, transport, housing, trade and other issues.
TheShitMuppet@straphanger I hope they are making exceptions for electric planes as they become available.
EsowesDonโt think this is good for the environment.
People will simply end up flying LONGER routes, like Bordeaux-Amsterdam-Washington iso Bordeaux-Paris-Washington, resulting in HIGHER CO2 rejections.
Same kind of short-sightedness resulted in Germany closing most of its nuclear plants and reopening their coal-burning ones! An ecology catastrophe.
john bingham-hall@straphanger quite a half measure really. Train routes over 2.5 hours can be doubled by flights, which, in the largest country in the EU, still leaves a lot of internal flights that could easily be done by rail in 3 or 4 hours
aaronaaronvb@straphanger
leider ist die strecke berlin-paris bei weitem noch nicht so schnell wie sie sein kรถnnte
leider ist die strecke berlin-paris bei weitem noch nicht so schnell wie sie sein kรถnnte