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It's official: France bans short haul domestic flights in favour of train travel:
France has been given the green light to ban short haul domestic flights.
The European Commission has approved the move which will abolish flights between cities that are linked by a train journey of less than 2.5 hours.
[...] France is also cracking down on the use of private jets for short journeys in a bid to make transport greener and fairer for the population.
Transport minister Clément Beaune said the country could no longer tolerate the super rich using private planes while the public are making cutbacks to deal with the energy crisis and climate change.
[...] The ban on short-haul flights will be valid for three years, after which it must be reassessed by the Commission.
"[This] is a major step forward in the policy of reducing greenhouse gas emissions," transport minister Beaune said in a press release.
[...] Sarah Fayolle, Greenpeace France transport campaign manager, told Euronews that there were both "negative and positive aspects" to the European Commission's decision given that only three routes are affected.
"It's going in the right direction, but the initial measure is one that's (not very) ambitious. We must go even further," she said.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday December 19, @06:43PM (2 children)
Can you be bothered to state that in an informative way? There's been a lot of movement then and a lot of movement now. My bet is the only metric you have that is orders of magnitude different is distance traveled. And that's pretty meaningless since you're still uprooted whether you move 50 miles by cart or 5,000 miles by moving van.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday December 19, @07:06PM (1 child)
>There's been a lot of movement then and a lot of movement now.
If you were in a war, or famine - which were widely documented historical events - sure, movement then. I believe the primary feature of life thousands of years ago (even hundreds) was how dull it was, nothing much changing. Prior to the World Wars, my ancestors relocated to Eastern Tennessee in the early 1800s, and basically didn't move from their spots except when marrying until - by choice - post WWII, ~150 years later - and even then about half of them stayed planted on the family farms for another 30-50 years. If you track them back to Scotland and Germany before that, they were pretty much stuck in their ruts for several hundred more years before then.
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday December 20, @11:50PM
And pretty common.