Look and this is the most annoying thing about that Timmerfransian climate urge and compulsion and pointing at the people with your pedantic mouth and raised finger. Amsterdammers with a diesel van are bullied to the abyss (rant here) without a decent alternative: there are (still too) few charging stations, electric e-vans are very expensive and cannot be paid for many self-employed and mbk’ers (because there is no second-hand market yet) and moreover, they have the range of a carton of buttermilk. People who have just bought a boat are screwed up for thousands of euros because they are no longer allowed to enter the city and therefore have to electrify. Everywhere people get windmills in, on, in front of or next to their faces, and anyone who still travels by plane these days is certainly a dirty Nazi. And then what is the alternative? The train. Everyone has to take the train. Such a train is expensive, slow, boring and smells like forgotten French fries, peeled tangerine and soaked nappy. And guess what? “The railway cannot keep up with the growth in train holidays.“There is talk of ‘train nationalism’:”A more acute problem is that railway companies in Europe invariably give priority to domestic timetables. The result is not only fewer international train journeys, but also bad connections, so long transfer times.” And keep talking about everyone having to take the train and oh well, we can all go to a behavioral change together, but the alternative is still a bucket of shit.
2023-07-21 17:00:38
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