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Why are Trains So Great in Europe, Compared to the US?

ECO CHIC

Cloud10

Natural Sciences, Arts, Fashion & Beauty, Society & Culture, Science

4.7641 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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We're comparing passenger train travel between the US and Europe: why does Europe do rail so well? We're overviewing a handful of regional and intercity routes that do train travel well, and pointing out what American communities could learn from - investments, political will, high-speed rail, and much more. We're also discussing scenic routes and trains as part of the trip, rather than simply a means of transportation. I share the triumphant, community-advocated-for Winter Park Express, from Denver, CO to a nearby ski resort. Episodes to revisit: The Death of the Third Place Urban Revitalization + Sustainable Development | Alan Sneider Meet me online - @ecochicpodcast on Instagram + @lauraediez on Tiktok. Email me at [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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you are doing really well. Today's quick episode is all about trains. Specifically, we're asking ourselves,

1:13.2

why are trains less popular in the U.S. than they are in Europe? I mentioned this a couple of weeks

1:18.8

ago, and I feel like I mentioned it pretty often on social. I am so interested in passenger

1:23.9

trains. Like if there is a train available, I want to take it. I also said in December

1:28.2

on our ins and outs list for the year that I think that this is the year of trains in the U.S.

1:33.5

There has been so much investment and so much talk about more commuter rail in the U.S.

1:39.4

And I really do hope to see it pretty soon, or at least expanded. We do have some good, seated ideas

1:45.7

for commuter rail in the U.S., new, innovative ideas kind of updating the transport that we currently

1:50.7

have on the rail. But every time we have this conversation of trains in the U.S., there is always the

1:56.3

comparison to Europe. So that's what we're attempting to ask today, or I guess attempting to answer,

2:02.1

rather, why does Europe do rail so well? I think even just setting the scenes starting off

2:08.7

acknowledging that we typically associate passenger travel on trains with Europe. And that's just

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