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by sublinear 31 days ago
Rail is energy efficient and extremely reliable. You're not going to win on either of those metrics.
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jeffbee 31 days ago
Recent history is full of examples of trains that killed air routes. Trains took 80% market share from Paris to Lyon and 100% to Brussels. Similar in Spain and Japan.
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cguess 31 days ago
Trains are absolutely better but France also outlawed most of those short haul flights. https://www.euronews.com/2024/07/06/frances-short-haul-fligh...
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jeffbee 31 days ago
This mostly codified established reality. TGV had overwhelming Paris-Lyon market share by 1981 and Paris-Bordeaux by 2018, years before the ban.
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