How the Channel Tunnel Changed Europe Forever

Posted by Tomte on Monday December 09, 2019 @10:07AM
from the edition.cnn.com dept.

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/channel-tunnel-anniversary/index.html

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Re:How the Channel Tunnel Changed Europe Forever by abcdef123xyz on Monday December 09, 2019 @01:59PM (#21745274)

This reads like an advert for Eurostar. And it is absolutely not true that traveling London-Paris or anywhere else in Europe is now the norm, most people still fly.

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Re:How the Channel Tunnel Changed Europe Forever by Symbiote on Monday December 09, 2019 @02:11PM (#21745375)

https://papers.tinbergen.nl/09051.pdf shows that Eurostar had 68% of passengers from London to Paris in 2003.

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Re:How the Channel Tunnel Changed Europe Forever by aussiegreenie on Monday December 09, 2019 @05:22PM (#21747300)

In all European air routes ~500 miles (800km) that have high-speed rail as an alternative, rail absolutely dominates.

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