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Spain bans short-haul flights where you can take a train (www.euronews.com)
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[–] thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.works 26 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (18 children)

The move to trains in Europe seems great! But still it costs me ~£300 short notice, ~£100 otherwise per person to get from London to Paris by train so for any trips it'll still need to be planes unfortunately. I dream of a day I can make an affordable night time trip to the Mediterranean on a train

[–] huginn@feddit.it 34 points 8 months ago (9 children)

The UK has an atrocious train system in terms of cost.

Point fingers where they belong: your own government.

[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

amazing that building, maintaining, and fueling a fleet of airplanes is more cost effective than a few engines, coaches, and track.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's the innovation of privatization.

[–] wildcherry@slrpnk.net 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yea I got a fine because I took an Avanti North-west instead of an Avanti Wales train, on the same route -_- like wtf, if they are not the same company maybe they should not share the same name?

thanks a lot margaret

[–] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A fine for what though?

[–] wildcherry@slrpnk.net 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Penalty fare. I wsn't in the right train even though they departed at the same time for the same destination.

[–] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What in the mother of fuck? Were they both totally full? Did you take a more expensive car than you'd paid for? That sounds nutter butters.

[–] wildcherry@slrpnk.net 1 points 8 months ago

Not even. It's just not the same company, not the same train so I had to pay for a new ticket with an on-board penalty fee. In Belgium, when I want to go somewhere, I go to the station, I buy a ticket from my origin to my destination and I hop into the next train. But according to liberals that goes against the will of the invisible hand or something

[–] moitoi@feddit.de 5 points 8 months ago

No taxes on fuel

Trains use infrastructures and not the air

it's just 2 examples. Complain at your government if you want things to change.

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