Re:Flight risk: can we take the carbon out of air travel?
by Aloha on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @02:01AM
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The United States has a pretty dense rail network now, even after the cuts in the dark age of railroading - I'll point out that we have 6 major west-Midwest routes, 3 Midwest to east routes, plus an equal number of Midwest to south routings. We don't need more rail, we need subsidy to operate more passenger trains.
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Re:Flight risk: can we take the carbon out of air travel?
by Consultant32452 on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @03:28AM
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Even if the train ride were completely free I'd usually opt to drive. That's because most places in the US you need a car to get around. So I might as well just bring my own. Except for a hand full of major cities, the US just isn't dense enough for rail to work well.