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Community for those focused on sustainable travel. Our society's current levels of energy intensive and frequent travel are not compatible with life on a finite planet. We advocate for long-term slow travel to see the world, and low energy local travel to deeply experience your community. Green washing free zone.
related to sustainable travel:
- [email protected] ← open to all train chatter (but note the instance is centered on the midwest USA)
- [email protected] ← UK Rail and Trains
- [email protected] ← UK public transport
related to travel generally:
- [email protected] ← general travel
- [email protected] ← general travel (this whole instance devoted to travel but note there is an instance-wide no politics rule there)
- [email protected] ← Europe focus
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Apart from long distances, that's true only if you count flight time. To take a plane, you need to drive to the airport (which is far from the city), show up at least 2 hours before your flight, go through check-in, wait in line and do the reverse on arrival; and if there's a sudden storm or something you gotta wait on the runway for another 3 hours. Trains take you from one city center to another city centre, you need to show up 20 minutes before departure and there's no check-in (unless you live in Canada).
Artificially cheaper, planes are subsidized, trains are not. When you buy a plane ticket, you're actually paying for only a fraction of the real price.
Show up 20min before? More like 2min before :)
You like to live dangerously...
Haha why? What countries does that not work in? The only time I had to be earlier on a train than its departure was on the Eurostar
I assume you're not in the EU...
Technically not, but I traveled a lot by train in Europe