Interesting changes…
https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/german-transport-minister-considers-cutting-vat-train-tickets
Here are RG Int’l announcements shown on Blue Streak’s post about wire teardowns.
https://www.railwaygazette.com/high-speed/klm-replaces-plane-with-high-speed-train/54577.article
Here’s what’s happening in Sweden:
My second daughter just returned from Europe on a business trip.
The ICE train ride she said was first class right to her seat.
She remembers seeing 165.5 MPH on the speed indicator. It might have been Metric and she converted. Not sure.
A local business associate complained in an urban are the speed as only 80 MPH.
A picture of the engine she sent almost looked like a jet plane.
I did Google it.
I have seen a program where the driver closes passenger car vents on high speed trains at tunnels because of pressure changes.
Rich
She converted from kmh. The DB ICE trains are great.
I recently rode the 4th version of the ICE train from Mulhouse to Munich. 285 kms an hour was shown on a screen in the middle of the car. Smooth as silk and passing cars on the Autobahn like they were parked.
I am sure she did. First time traveling by train.
She usually flies. Works in Boston for major corporation and travels to Europe occasionally.
Looks like Shanghai trip coming up this year.
Rich
The terms “flying shame” and “train pride” can only lead to good things. Sleeping cars making a comeback in Europe is one example. Increased taxes on short flights, lower taxes on rail tickets. It all seems good to me.
Why?
Why? Anything that promotes rail travel and is effective at that is a good thing.
So if I want to fly, I have to pay higher taxes because you want to ride a train?
Yes. That’s what’s coming. There will be a hefty environmental tax levied on flying. Be careful who you vote for in the future. Depends where you stand on the issue.
It is going that way. In Europe, anyway. Here, all the candidates for prime minister (except the conservative) have all pledged big money for transit projects. Will we get a high-speed train from Toronto to Ottawa and Montreal? I’ll believe it when it happens.
Most folks prefer to avoid the outrageous costs of living in a world altered in a severely damaging way. Some prefer a short-term and selfish denial.
Do you mean those folks who flew in 1,500 private jet flights to the Davos summit to discuss climate change?
Red herrings for those who choose to ignore facts in favor of some specious conspiracy nonsense.
Now that’s a mouthful.
“If the metaphor fits, swallow it!”
[my apologies to the original aphorism]
When I went on blood pressure medicine, that’s one of the things I was forced to give up.
A recent poll shows most people don’t want to pay very much to “avoid the outrageous cost of living in a world altered in a servely damaging way.”