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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I found travel throughout Europe much easier by train, maybe the trip is longer but if you go city center to city center, you don’t have a 30-45 min trip to the airport, at the airport an hour, then the flight, then another 30-45 minute trip to town. I enjoyed a three hour train ride over a 2 hour flight as often as possible.
I doubt if Obama said that, because the quote makes too much sense. I actually think Charles Krauthammer said it. But I can’t find any proof.
The politicians in France eat snails and get Snail Brain where they want to slow everyone down.
I’m sure Buttiplug is very very excited to hear about this idea.
There’s more liberty in Mexico than there is in France. Or half of the US, for that matter.
Imagine the same in the US: hey, no trouble, Amtrak will get you there in five days!
Bet it won’t impact the private jets of the rich and famous.
Outside the Northeast Corridor, Amtrak’s average speed is actually 20 mph slower than it was during rail’s heyday. Combination of oligarchic ownership (five major ostensibly private owners versus about 30 back in the 1980s) and overregulation from the FRA.
In the 1920’s Santa Fe’s steam locomotives routinely clocked over 100 mph in wide open stretches of the West.
The endless repetition about “global warming” or “climate change” is just word salad.
It is like adding the words “because of the coming extinction of Unicorns” to every “news” article.
France will “unexpectedly” experience a decline in tourism.
I don’t know about France but here in America they make sure the train systems rarely connect to the airports. if you connect commuter trains to the airports people will take the trains. You don’t have to pass an asinine law.
The trains in Europe are amazing. In high school, my class did a trip to Amsterdam (that city in the 70s was a teenager dream.), so 3 friends of mine decided to go to Paris, I went with them and the train was nice...
If we did high speed rail in the Northeast, it would be a new right of way. The fastest time between NY and Boston was 5 hours and that was the Ghost Train of the New England Limited.
While Paris has SOME things to see, generally, it is a crap hole!
Hey Delta.... are you hearing this? They’re trying to eliminate your mode of transportation. Coming to your backyard soon. Careful who you get on bed with.
It’s probably takes more time to fly domestically in a European country than to take a train when all is said and done. It’s also much more convenient to take a train there.
I was there only once; just hit the touristy spots, like the Notre Dame, Eiffel Tower, Pompidou Center et al. This was before the first TGV ever ran, too.
Under the Green New Deal us peons will be crowded into fetid, dank and always late electric trains and the elites will be flying in private jets.
France gets 75+% of it’s electricity from nuclear power they are the world leader in percent of total power from nuclear. Their plants load follow also the world leader in that technology. They reprocessed spent fuel into more fuel. They store 40+ years of “wastes” under 3 feet of concrete at La Hague in an area smaller than a football pitch again world leaders in that technology. They have no shortage of electricity for high speed trains anyone who travels Europe extensively marvels at the efficiency of the network it boggles the mind why the states don’t have similar technology. Then you realise the US government is bought and sold by corporate interests and the airlines plus Boeing bride more than any train group ever could.
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