Train travel is often more expensive than flying. Could taxing aviation to invest in the rail industry help change that?

  • nicetriangle@kbin.socialOP
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    1 year ago

    We just booked travel for Paris and Munich later on this year (from the Netherlands) and the trains were definitely more expensive than flying.

    We could afford the extra cost so we went for trains to do the more environmentally sound thing, but it does feel like there needs to be a better solve for this.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah I am assuming someone just tried to grab a pretty stock photo of “europe train” and this was an easy pick

  • Ferk@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Well, it depends on how it’s done.
    If they are just gonna remove the tax exemption on airplanes (they should… and don’t forget private ones too!) without in turn making the train and other greener alternatives exempt of taxes… then that’s not really encouraging the use of the train, but just making the cost of travel higher overall.

    It makes no sense to me how sometimes even the cost of the gas for driving a private car to cross the country is cheaper than doing the same via a public transport like the train…