cross-posted from: https://lemmy.skoops.social/post/727
crossposted: https://lemmy.skoops.social/post/665
Oh boy...
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Let's just pretend the environmental impact is a negligible factor to save like 35 minutes on a 5-6 hour trip. Toronto - NYC, one way or another (have this guy ever been to an airport?).
Biggest city in the US to biggest city in Canada, at a distance where high speed rail could be the best choice of it existed …
Even as someone who really wants to take the train, that’s not under consideration
I'm someone who prefers to drive because I don't like people much and flying is now a miserable experience, but yes, when you tally up all the time it takes to go to the airport, park, go through security, and then fly (especially if there's a layover tacked on), you really don't save much time in the end.
If I were a European and train service was more feasible, I'd go that route. It's really only a convenient option on the East Coast here.
To me, flying is just not worth it.
Not to mention that frequent flying is also too much radiation exposure.
The externalities are so terrifyingly large, "radiation exposure" seems like a sociopathic thing to worry about.
For sociopaths who already don't care about the externalities (billionaires and the like), their own asses getting irradiated might be a convincing argument.