did you get that by reading it and now we don't have to or that is your answer after not reading? because I have not.

I'm left with a lot of questions though, as the scope of the article is quite limited.

Short-haul flight are banned, so the gains seem obvious. But the article doesn't seem to detail if they're actually substituted by rail. Travellers could also be going by car, search for destinations further away, maybe not go at all.

I guess it's quite hard to find an actual effect from a broader perspective, but if their expectations are true, travellers using rail should have a noticable increase. It's a shame this is missing in the article.

Basically the article is saying that if you scrap a bunch of flights, emissions by aviations go down. Maybe I'm missing the point, but that seems pretty obvious. I'd like to know what the actual broader effect is of these measures taken.

So jealous of the countries that have kept train systems in place

What I love the most about train is that you can go to the restaurant car and stretch the legs.

I wish we had Chinese level public infrastructure, though. Even the proposed plans for EU high speed rail twenty years from now are behind what China already has.