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    Posted: 31 May 21 at 2:46pm
I guess with an aeroplane you don't need tracks, which must save a bucket load of cash, though the stations are more expensive for the planes.

Maybe we need a breakthrough with solar panels, so one on a car roof provides all the power needed?
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We will get what the Teflon messiah dictates
Personal transport will prevail, tourism industry will lobby for 'something' just not sure what yet? We will have HS2 soon, that will take a load of East and West coast mainline, metro in most cities, if we had better weather bikes and motorbikes would play a bigger role.
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Train? It doesn't answer the boat towing issue but neither does a plane.
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Post Options Post Options   Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 31 May 21 at 10:21am
So how are you meant to get from one end of the country to the other if flights are cancelled, diesels are effectively banned (petrol and hybrids surely to follow)and electric vehicles don’t have the range?
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https://flightfree.co.uk/post/should-a-domestic-flight-ban-be-applied-in-the-uk/
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Posts: 3420 		Post Options Post Options   Quote 423zero Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 31 May 21 at 9:33am
I read somewhere they were stopping internal flights, might have dreamt it though
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Duty on airline fuel would be a good first step...
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Needs looking at, electric train with average life span of 30 years carrying hundreds of people, should be cheaper.
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Originally posted by 423zero

Trains will need a radical overhaul, apart from being packed they are too expensive, before covid I used to fly from Birmingham to Darlington for a quarter of the price of the train.
Hydrogen and flow batteries are the future, Sci-fi is hoping for mini reactors powering flying personal vehicles.


as usual the   the apples and oranges  comparison of  train fares vs  flight pirces 
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Trains will need a radical overhaul, apart from being packed they are too expensive, before covid I used to fly from Birmingham to Darlington for a quarter of the price of the train.
Hydrogen and flow batteries are the future, Sci-fi is hoping for mini reactors powering flying personal vehicles.
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