Re:The night train revolution has been hailed as an alternat...
by wkat4242 on Friday November 17, 2023 @09:06AM
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Yeah I'm all for fighting climate change but air travel should be excepted until there's battery-powered options available. We can't go back to the dark ages of travel. And especially internationally in Europe the rail network is shit and has way too little capacity. There's almost no good international high speed rail. It's only in countries that invested in it locally like Germany, France and Spain.
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Re:The night train revolution has been hailed as an alternat...
by baz00 on Friday November 17, 2023 @09:08AM
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Completely agree with this.
Anyway shifting all our trips to train travel is not the answer. The answer, which I do prefer, is not travelling at all when avoidable. I only ever travel for holidays and funerals. Never on business. All business can be conducted on conference calls.
Re:The night train revolution has been hailed as an alternat...
by wkat4242 on Friday November 17, 2023 @11:02AM
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As someone who lives in another country I don't really agree. I do agree some trips (especially business) are avoidable. There's an unfortunate stigma that if you don't travel for a meeting you're not considering it important enough. I personally really like VR meetings as a replacement, they make me feel much more together.
But for personal use I don't think travelling less is an option. I hate travel but it's important to see family too. We can't just roll the world back to where a different continent was unreachable.