Europe is investing heavily in trains

Re:Europe is investing heavily in trains by zdragnar on Monday April 11, 2022 @10:34PM (#30997935)

Amtrack moves just shy of 17 million passengers in a year. Airlines in the US do that in 8 days. That's works out to roughly 45x as many passengers, with only what, 6x the subsidies?

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Re:Europe is investing heavily in trains by xyzzyz on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @02:33AM (#30999346)

I think if you don't look at raw passenger figures, but instead at passenger-miles, it becomes even more lopsided in favor of airlines.

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Re:Europe is investing heavily in trains by ZeroGravitas on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @05:27AM (#31000391)

American rail is apparently heavily biased towards moving freight. This may even be a good thing, but it'll throw out the numbers if you compare train to car or plane and don't include it.

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Re:Europe is investing heavily in trains by afiori on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @02:12AM (#30999213)

> and that doesn't account for all the local and state funds used to subsidize airports. Or Department of Transportation spending...

probably this counts for at least a few billions

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Re:Europe is investing heavily in trains by pastage on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @01:28AM (#30998947)

How does that translate to carbon foot print per dollar.

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Re:Europe is investing heavily in trains by xyzzyz on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @02:35AM (#30999353)

Most Amtrak trains are diesel powered.

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