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France to ban domestic flights where trains are available, in move to cut emissions
CNN Travel ^ | 12th April 2021 | Rob Picheta and Barbara Wojazer

Posted on 04/14/2021 10:19:26 AM PDT by Olog-hai

France is set to ban short domestic flights in favor of train services, after lawmakers approved a plan that will see several air routes discontinued to reduce emissions.

MPs voted late on Saturday to some suspend some flights by domestic airlines that can be made by train in less than two-and-a-half hours, as part of a wider climate bill. If the bill passes through France’s upper house, the Senate, France will join a number of European countries seeking to move away from short flights.

But some have criticized President Emmanuel Macron for watering down proposals from his own environmental panel, which had recommended a ban on flights where a train journey would take less than four hours.

Transport Minister Jean-Baptiste Djebbari said the government’s proposal was “reasonable.” He told lawmakers during the debate that a four-hour threshold “would have really impacted territories that need flights.” …

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TOPICS: Local News; Travel; Weather
KEYWORDS: airlines; climatechange; climatechangehoax; emmanuelmacron; envirowackos; eussr; fourthreich; france; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; highspeedrail; railroads; trains
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1 posted on 04/14/2021 10:19:26 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Soon they’ll be banning auto traffic when mass transit is available.


2 posted on 04/14/2021 10:20:58 AM PDT by The Louiswu ((.....................insert tagline here.......................))
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To: Olog-hai

In much of the Northeast US, a two hour train ride is probably fifty miles...

;-)


3 posted on 04/14/2021 10:21:33 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Olog-hai

Good Lord. But still no public open debate on man made global warming.


4 posted on 04/14/2021 10:21:42 AM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: Olog-hai

right now you have to change 3 times to get across France...no direct schedules due to the Wu Hu Flu...


5 posted on 04/14/2021 10:23:25 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: cgbg

That’s a 25-mph average speed. Used to be that local trains had a 40-mph average speed or higher when the private sector ran them.


6 posted on 04/14/2021 10:24:13 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Train brains. Though I must admit, I wonder if more train service in FL would get some a-hole drivers off the roads and make things a little safer? But yeah, many trains run on “non polluting” electricity. Or IS it? Like with Teslas and other electric cars where does that electricity come from, unicorn farts?


7 posted on 04/14/2021 10:25:00 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: Olog-hai

Haven’t they ever heard of High Speed Stagecoach. Coming to a Communist country near you.


8 posted on 04/14/2021 10:26:11 AM PDT by bray (Hating Whites is racist)
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To: Olog-hai

You are morally obligated to go the slow way ... Mad Mommy Earth demands it.


9 posted on 04/14/2021 10:26:43 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: The Louiswu

“Soon they’ll be banning auto traffic when mass transit is available.”

Maybe so over here with Democrats in power, but NOTHING can be worse than having RINOs around to stop them.


10 posted on 04/14/2021 10:27:11 AM PDT by BobL (TheDonald.win is now Patriots.win)
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To: Olog-hai

Soon they will ban subways because walking is available..................


11 posted on 04/14/2021 10:28:24 AM PDT by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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To: Olog-hai

Fascists love making the trains run on time.

Little else to show. Just their choo choos.


12 posted on 04/14/2021 10:28:27 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: Vision

Settled science remember. What’s to debate? :-(


13 posted on 04/14/2021 10:29:17 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: Olog-hai

I had my fill of France and their public employee transportation unions.
Never again


14 posted on 04/14/2021 10:29:28 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: cgbg
In much of the Northeast US, a two hour train ride is probably fifty miles... ;-)
The Metro North from PT. Jervis to Penn Station is at least a 3 hour ride on a good day. It used to take us just over 2 hrs by car. Though the train is a nice somewhat scenic ride, IF you're not in a hurry. Kinda defeats the purpose of calling it a commuter line.🤔
15 posted on 04/14/2021 10:30:14 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: Olog-hai

Unless you are one of the political elite.
Then you take a private jet.


16 posted on 04/14/2021 10:30:47 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: Impala64ssa

“...would get some a-hole drivers off the roads...” Uh, probably not. Some people still haven’t realized we ain’t YEWWWWrope.


17 posted on 04/14/2021 10:31:52 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: Vision

> But still no public open debate on man made global warming. <

That is absolutely the worst part about this whole mess.The exchange of ideas is being suppressed.

I wish I knew who said this about “settled science”:

If it’s settled, it’s not science.
And if it’s science, it’s not settled.


18 posted on 04/14/2021 10:32:13 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Red Badger

So firehouse sammiches then?


19 posted on 04/14/2021 10:33:21 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: Leaning Right

I believe it was Obama.


20 posted on 04/14/2021 10:33:43 AM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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