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Feb 12 • 32 tweets • 9 min read
Let's do a thread with some examples of environmental NGOs speaking in favour of train travel.
Add anything you find in the replies!
Yes to all of this!

"17/20 busiest air routes in Europe cover distances <700 km - exactly the kind of distances where city-to-city trains can offer faster, cleaner & more sustainable journeys -- if the right infrastructure exists.
#trains
#publictransport
#highspeedrail "
We need more rail capacity in the UK so we can lower prices without leading to overcrowding.
High Speed Rail like the Eurostar (HS1) can compete with domestic flights in a way that slow local stopping services (which are also mega important!) can't.

If we had more High Speed Rail that would increase the area you can travel to in 6 hours or less - making it more feasible to ban more short haul flight routes!

Many of us greens want High Speed Rail in theory: we've got to want it in practice too.
#highspeedrail @Greens4HS2
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Oct 8, 2021
Crunching some numbers:
🚄#HS2 's construction is 8-14 million tCO2 (~12)
🔌1 electric car (Nissan leaf)'s construction is ~10 tCO2
🚘The UK has ~44.5 million petrol&diesel cars
🤯Replacing them all with EVs would take 445 million tCO2 or *37* HS2s
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