France to ban domestic flights where trains are available, in move to cut emissions

CNN Travel ^ | 12th April 2021 | Rob Picheta and Barbara Wojazer

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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.” …

[Impala64ssa]

Nuclear power is one thing the French got right. I remember the No Nukes concerts that were popular during the “eeeevil Reagan regime”. Also around that time the Sane Freeze coalition, a bunch of hysterical housewives (Karen’s mothers?) who would hang out at busy intersections holding signs and making noise. Funny how since the madmen in N Korea and Iran got nukes of their own the anti nuke protests....silently...faded... away

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France took an American Westinghouse PWR design standardized it licensed that one version and cookie cutter built them in mass while ignoring the greens. They got the whole process right. I’m also old enough to remember the grandma Karen’s picketing with no nukes.