Re:How trains could replace planes in Europe
by thehappypm on Thursday November 11, 2021 @11:11PM
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I don’t get how trains help everyone. By their very nature, they draw lines blessing certain areas with infrastructure, blessing certain cities, while bypassing others. It must be hard for smaller cities in Europe to get much traction when the big cities all have fancy rail. In the US? Even small, super remote places (Aspen, Steamboat, Bar Harbor, Bozeman, Spokane, Jackson Home) have airports and that makes them equally connected to the country as anywhere else.
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Re:How trains could replace planes in Europe
by jltsiren on Thursday November 11, 2021 @11:47PM
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Europe is more densely populated than the US. Small cities are rarely far from major cities, and they are usually connected by regional rail. Small remote cities don't really exist in areas where rail traffic makes sense.
Re:How trains could replace planes in Europe
by thehappypm on Friday November 12, 2021 @08:56AM
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That’s a very Western / Central European bias. In fact it probably is a big reason why there’s such a major east/west split that persists today, the rich countries keep building themselves more and more of this type of luxury infra.