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Re:Norway's Bold Plan to Tackle Overtourism by skohan on Thursday September 12, 2019 @01:00PM (#20953764)
It's not just the desire to travel by air, it's the economics. When I first moved to Germany I looked into doing a few trips by train, but the flights were much cheaper.
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Re:Norway's Bold Plan to Tackle Overtourism by magduf on Thursday September 12, 2019 @02:20PM (#20954610)
That definitely sounds like a failure of regulation. Taxes should be levied, and probably also subsidies put in place (from those taxes), so that train travel is cheaper than air travel. Train travel doesn't require nearly as much energy as air travel, per passenger.
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Re:Norway's Bold Plan to Tackle Overtourism by graeme on Thursday September 12, 2019 @02:57PM (#20955050)
Right. OP was arguing we shouldn't price in externalities because it would conflict with the desire to travel by air.
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