Tim Richards on Nostr: Good piece about the Melbourne-Sydney sleeper train and its potential to help lower ...
Good piece about the Melbourne-Sydney sleeper train and its potential to help lower carbon emissions, via improvements to the trains and the track:
"Sleeper trains run every night between Melbourne and Sydney. You go directly from city centre to city centre. At $250, it’s competitive. You can take 45 kilograms of luggage. And it doesn’t matter that it’s slow because you’re asleep.
"But as I stepped on board, I discovered that sleeper trains are like many potential Australian climate crisis solutions – they just don’t quite work yet."
#Train #Trains https://www.smh.com.au/national/can-sleeper-trains-replace-air-travel-i-tested-the-melbourne-sydney-route-20241008-p5kgqc.html
"Sleeper trains run every night between Melbourne and Sydney. You go directly from city centre to city centre. At $250, it’s competitive. You can take 45 kilograms of luggage. And it doesn’t matter that it’s slow because you’re asleep.
"But as I stepped on board, I discovered that sleeper trains are like many potential Australian climate crisis solutions – they just don’t quite work yet."
#Train #Trains https://www.smh.com.au/national/can-sleeper-trains-replace-air-travel-i-tested-the-melbourne-sydney-route-20241008-p5kgqc.html