🌍 Hell yes! Banning domestic flights that are already served by high-speed rail is exactly how you decarbonise transport. Cannot wait to do this in the UK once we’ve overhauled our train network. Roll on 2033. reuters.com/article/us-cli…
Woah France also nailing it with taking literal trucks off the road. This “rail motorway” will cut some truck journeys from 36 hours by road to 20 hours by train, saving time, money, and emissions. If only the U.K. was working on a way to increase rail freight!
https://twitter.com/Ogilvie_CJ/status/1381221815725527041
Thankfully train ticket prices in France are pretty reasonable. They’re usually outright cheaper than flights, but sometimes they’re a little more on certain days/times/short-notice. You don’t book summer holiday flights day of either right? via @rome2rio 
The trips that aren’t cheaper also aren’t quick enough to be banned, because they’re junky old lines not their new high speed stuff. This law leaves them alone. If they improve the line then the flight could be banned, and basic supply & demand would kick in to lower price.
Could the U.K. put a law like this in place sooner? Maybe, but our train networks were rammed beyond capacity with inflated prices to match. If we’re gonna bounce back to normal, no way, but if we see a drop in people making those trips we could put bans in place much sooner.
https://twitter.com/philsturgeon/status/1374046058423197710
Meanwhile in England. 🤦♂️ bbc.com/news/uk-englan…
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