Cut the budget airlines dedicate to lobbying against HSR and you might get better results
No. If flights are dirt cheap, people will kill this planet using them. It’s not about the price, it’s about the amount (& type) of energy used to accomplish transportation.
If flights are dirt cheap
HSR is generally more convenient and less expensive than air travel, thanks to the ability to run trains directly out of the center of major cities while airports are flung to the outskirts. If you’ve got the choice between a $30 plane + hours of driving and TSA and boarding and landing, or a straight shot to your train station and then $30 to pop on the next one that’s scheduled to leave, its an easy choice.
it’s about the amount (& type) of energy used to accomplish transportation.
Its also about speed and convenience. We’ve made train travel painfully obtuse. Other countries don’t do it this way, so people spend far less time in the air.
My apologies, when you referred to HSR, especially considering the context of Boeing, my brain deciphered that as “health & safety regulations”. I take it you are talking about a train system operator / railway network? And yes, train network in the US sucks compared to Europe, if I may say so as a European. But also here (Germany), it is painfully expensive - and I want to lynch some responsible politicians for making train tickets more expensive than regular flights for even short distances…
