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by josephcsible 941 days ago
> Air travel within Europe is cheap and easy, night trains are far more expensive, slow and run unreliable schedules sometimes, and they often don’t even take you to places you want to go.

And of course their solution to this isn't to try to improve the trains. It's to ban flying between anywhere that trains exist! In case it isn't clear, this isn't a hypothetical: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36046764
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croisillon 941 days ago
* only between a couple cities

* except for private jets

* in fact except anything that would give this ban teeth, since Macron's cabinet members all end up working for shady companies afterward

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josephcsible 941 days ago
> * except for private jets

That's not a defense. It makes it worse. The elites still get to pollute, but we don't. And it's especially bad since flying commercial is way better for the environment than flying private.

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