Greenpeace InternationalAug 31, 2025

If trains are the greener option, why are we basically being punished for choosing them?

The difference in trains vs planes ticket prices isn’t a coincidence, it’s the result of a transport system that rewards pollution.

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Show threadDerek MartinAug 31, 2025
@greenpeace @mhoye A plane from Toronto to Vancouver will take me hours. A train will take me days and eat up most of my vacation traveling.
Show threadJimmy
@lo_fye @greenpeace @mhoye That's a sad effect of the low speeds imposed on trains. A Japanese bullet train could get you there in 19 hours. There were trains in the early 20th century running 100 mph on steam with no streamlining. There's no reason that couldn't be done today.
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Show threadDerek MartinAug 31, 2025
@jhavok @greenpeace @mhoye It costs like $175 to go from London Ontario to Toronto Ontario on a train, and it takes 3 hours versus 2.5 hours and $40 in gas in a car. Canadian rail sucks.
Show threadJimmyAug 31, 2025

@lo_fye @greenpeace @mhoye American rail is similar. It's pathetic. I take it for the pleasure of the ride.

I was trying to put together a trip from Vancouver to Prince Rupert, one leg by rail and one by ferry, and no matter what I would have been stranded overnight in the middle of nowhere.