• MrFinnbean@lemmy.world
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    No shit it wont be easy and working immediadly everywhere. What is? And it does not nees to work everywhere at once. It does not need to be some macical over night build intercontinental mega structure. Simimarilly like good public transportation in cities lessens the need for private cars good inter city transportation lessens the need for cars, trucks and even flying.

    If you need to go to Germany fast, fly there. But if you would have options available where you can comfortably travel to your vacation to somewhere with reasonable price you might consider other destinations too.

    Also its not like it needs to be single entity bank rolling the whole railway system. Building new tracklines open whole world of cheaper transportation and locistic opportunities to whole slew of industries.

    And are you dim? I just said you dont need to penalize the flight systems. Just give people other options so they dont need to default to taking a plane.

    And i live no where near central EU.

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      14 hours ago

      No shit it wont be easy and working immediadly everywhere. What is? And it does not nees to work everywhere at once. It does not need to be some macical over night build intercontinental mega structure. Simimarilly like good public transportation in cities lessens the need for private cars good inter city transportation lessens the need for cars, trucks and even flying.

      Well the emissions need to be reduced yesterday, not in two decades.

      If you need to go to Germany fast, fly there. But if you would have options available where you can comfortably travel to your vacation to somewhere with reasonable price you might consider other destinations too.

      Comments above (maybe not yours necessarily) are literally saying that should NOT be an option.

      Also its not like it needs to be single entity bank rolling the whole railway system. Building new tracklines open whole world of cheaper transportation and locistic opportunities to whole slew of industries.

      True, but it does tend to be a few countries with support from the EU. We don’t really get private companies bank rolling the railroad, at least where I come from.

      And are you dim? I just said you dont need to penalize the flight systems. Just give people other options so they dont need to default to taking a plane.

      For anything longer than 1-2 hour flights, you kinda do. Trains need infrastructure for every line, whereas planes need infrastructure at the start and destination airports. You can’t have direct train connections between as many cities as we have direct flight connections, and for long routes trains currently cost more than flying because flying is way too cheap as it is. Jet fuel needs to be taxed way more.

      And i live no where near central EU.

      Whereabouts do you live then? In my corner, trains and planes are used for completely different routes. We already don’t use planes much if you just need to go to Latvia or an example, most people will just sit on the bus for 5 hours rather than flying 1 because the bus is cheaper.