[MadIvan]

Alert Al Gore. And after he passes out, throw water on him and tell him again.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Ping!

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Want to exponentially increase your chances of getting a flu, take mass transportation. It's about the same as catching AID's by going to the bathhouse.

I've never been so health since I stopped taking trains to work in the city as I now do working in my basement.

[longtermmemmory]

Efficiency has never been the issue with mass transit. The issue has always been elimination of personal vehicles and private property right.

[lonewacko_dot_com]

There are so many holes in this report it's difficult to list them all.

- how much auto travel is London to Edinburgh vs. local?
- is fuel consumption the only measure of whether something is enviro friendly?
- are there lighter, lower-consumption trains available, and how would they stack up?
- supposedly the 2004 Passat gets 31 MPG highway. What's the average for those who drive passenger cars between London and Edinburgh?

etc. etc. etc.

[sd-joe]

"The main problem is not long-distance travel but the 25 per cent of car journeys which are less than two miles. Those are the least efficient and often the most polluting."

But nobody takes the train for a journey of less than two miles. (Not talking about subways or buses or trams, etc, but full fledged trains.)

[small_l_libertarian]

Well, I should obviously drink my coffee before I start reading FR...

I just read this title as "Cats are more fuel-efficient than trains, claims study."

(Visions of hordes of harried commuters riding cats to work...)

[dinodino]

Ooh, Willie Green isn't going to like THIS one!

[Elsie]

Tilting Pendolino trains, due to come into full operation between London and Manchester in the autumn, are reckoned to weigh more per seat than the forthcoming Airbus A380 double-decker.

I would HOPE so!!!!

[VOA]

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