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You just have a shitty rail system in most of US. The solution is to fix it not fly more. Also trains are a lot more then 40% more efficient in terms of pollut
by doikor 6y ago
You just have a shitty rail system in most of US. The solution is to fix it not fly more.
Also trains are a lot more then 40% more efficient in terms of pollution. Eurostar for example 6g per km traveled while airplane is 100g (long haul flights much worse for short ones). Though electric train powered by coal can get to around 40g per km and even worse for diesel trains.
- AlotOfReading 6y agoWe have the track, just not the companies doing passenger service. The ones we used to have all went bankrupt during the great depression and disappeared. A similar story played out across the Americas in Canada, Brazil, and Argentina, all of which have expansive rail networks, but limited passenger service. As for efficiency, I'll go by amtrak's numbers [1], which claim to be 36% better than domestic air. [1] https://www.amtrak.com/travel-green https://www.amtrak.com/travel-green