Eine Schweizer Initiative will mit Flugblättern Züge finanzieren
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/emissions-reduction/a-swiss-initiative-wants-flyers-to-fund-trains/91736234?utm_source=multiple&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=bundle-front1_en&utm_content=o&utm_term=wpblock_teaser-bundle
Von Heavy-Mycologist-204
10 Kommentare
They can fuck off with that.
Why not stop the pointless flights such as Zurich to Geneva?
Stop flights that could be train journeys, like France did.
Like many MANY initiatives, it will go nowhere at all.
Meh, I’d rather have us subsidize public transport entirely instead of going only after air travel.
Give me good last-kilometer flexibility and modernize the rail infra, then make it free for anyone to use and you’ll see car commuting plummet.
i actually like this idea, airline tickets are ridiculously cheap to the point where I often pay less for the flight than the train to get to the airport (I recently paid 17 CHF to fly to Romania from Basel and like 35 CHF to get to the Basel airport…. thats with halbtax).
also having much higher taxes for private jets is great
How about…. No
The key to making people fly less and take the train more is to actually make them competitive in overall attractiveness. Booking a trip by train across Europe is a nightmare where you have to book multiple tickets for multiple countries, putting the risk of missing a connection on you, and so on. Simply put, unless you want to spend 5 hours researching and are a bit masochistic, booking a flight is just the easier choice.
Long-distance trains can never win by speed alone, but if you make it easy, comfortable and affordable for people, they will come. Right now it’s none of those 3 things.
I certainly believe the European train network could become good enough to replace most short flights, but taxing flights without improving trains is not the way.
This is a great initiative. Aviation has no medium-term prospects of becoming green, because of technological limitations. We need to find ways to transfer money from air to rail so that rail becomes more competitive, both in terms of pricing and infrastructure. This initiative covers both by suggesting vouchers directly targeted at the population, and subsidies for international (night) train travel.
Domestic flights sure. Or maybe even any route covered by trains.
I read the title and though it means have publicity flyers distributed in the train to fund the trains
If this gets accepted, i’ll just start booking MLH-XYZ instead of BSL-XYZ.
Looks like having an airport close by that’s legally in two countries and therefore has two IATA codes (or even three if you count EAP) is a major advantage.