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Emeritus Prof Christopher May
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us

While there are many problems to overcome in the EU Commission's aspiration to make high-speed rial travel across Europe competitive with air travel, the direction of travel (pun intended) must be right; unlike our own Govt. with its support for expansion at Heathrow Airport & its continued difficulty in seeing rail as a public good whose price must be reduced.

Rail as mass-transport needs to be made a priority, by making it cheap(er) & easily used.

#railways #climate
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/08/high-speed-rail-network-vision-europe-eu-transport

Albert Cardona
@albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us

"T&E, a transport and clean energy advocacy group, says air travel is artificially cheap mainly because all parts of the sector – from airports through plane manufacturers through to airlines – are subsidised by local, regional, national and EU authorities, while airlines are exempt from paying tax on their fuel and VAT on their tickets."

Deallocating such subsidies from air travel and allocating them to train travel would help. A lot.

#TrainTravel #EUTrains