- cross-posted to:
- travel@lemmy.ml
- climate@slrpnk.net
- cross-posted to:
- travel@lemmy.ml
- climate@slrpnk.net
⚠ Link #enshitification warning: #euronews has a forced agreement type of popup in some browsers (TB). I suggest either Ungoogled Chromium or lynx. Lynx warns “bad html” but it renders fine.
This is being cross-posted to several places so I won’t bother to list them here… but there are a few discussions on this if you look around.
It seems like the ban is only for train rides under 2.5 hours which is IMO ridiculous. Considering you can take 1 hour commuting to the airport, have to be there 2 hours earlier, the flight is at least 30 minutes, then you take 1 hour reaching your destination, this ban would be reasonable for train rides upto 4 hours.
That is why this ban is wrong. If people are choosing toefly anyway then there is a problem for the trains to fix so they become more attractive. figure out why People didn’t take the train and then you have your list of issues to fix. Soon those short flights won’t exist as everyone is taking the train.
Kerosene is not taxed which makes low cost flights cheaper than train. Strat with taxing kerosene in all EU countries, use the money to improve Euro-wide rail transportation
It’s worth noting that the train problems in Europe are relatively well known (some of them, anyway), e.g.:
That’s just a sample of problems in this train shit show. The EU Commission actually tried pushing some legislation to fix problem ① (and I think ② as well) years ago but still today there has been no progress.
So if the Commission can’t fix that mess, what’s Spain to do? Spain needs a stick because the carrot is not working.
Even if they fix the train ticketing situation people don’t want the risk of making a separate purchase for the ground portion of their trip. If you miss the plane→train connection or vice versa, you’re fucked. I’m not sure if Spain has train codeshares in place to remedy that. (I forgot what those tickets are called… is it airtrain?) And note as well the codeshares still have the problem that an airline will do an exclusive deal with a train operator. E.g. train-plane itineraries involving CDG are only offered by Air France and for Amsterdam it’s KLM, AFAIK. Which is a kind of monopoly.
Spain can fix those proplems for internal trips.