Post #1694620
2026-04-05 18:16 UTC
But of course, that never really happened. The 1973 oil crisis killed the idea stone dead.
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@drmikepj@mastodon.social 2026-04-05 18:19
It was the development, in Japan, the UK and France, of technologies to allow trains to run routinely at 100mph+ that led to rail being the dominant medium-distance transport option. (Even TGV, like the UK's ill-fated APT, started off with a gas turbine engine, because before 1973 nobody cared about the price of jet fuel and certainly didn't care about carbon emissions!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNCF_TGV_Sud-Est