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I flew from Ireland to France recently and then caught two trains to my ultimate destination about 100 km from the airport. The train fares worked out at double
by stormdennis 4y ago
I flew from Ireland to France recently and then caught two trains to my ultimate destination about 100 km from the airport.
The train fares worked out at double the cost of the flight despite being one fifteenth the distance.
- sdoering 4y agoDoesn't that strike you as silly given the externalities (like CO2) being way higher for the plane ride than for the train ride? I still can't get my head around the fact that we as a society allow air travel to dump that much environmental costs on all of us. If flying had to internalize the cost for externalities into the pricing your plane ticket would have probably cost way more than the price of the train ride.
- stormdennis 4y agoAviation fuel is taxed lightly but still train fares in france seem to be very expensive, the train in Ireland is far cheaper (even though most things in Ireland are more expensive).