yosh, 4 months ago

@fasterthanlime Car infrastructure is so heavily sponsored, it’s bizarre.

Pulling out my go-to infographic for this:

graham_knapp, 4 months ago

@fasterthanlime €1.70 each to cross Nantes to the airport IF you can work out a route which avoids the Navette Aéroport

muvlon, 4 months ago

@fasterthanlime Also, in Germany, it's not unheard of for domestic flights to be cheaper than a high-speed rail ticket. It's maddening.

smlavine, 4 months ago

@fasterthanlime What is the math on that? That seems incredible

fasterthanlime, 4 months ago

@smlavine okay I slightly misspoke, public transportation would be 2€ (metro/bus ticket) + 16,30€ (Rhônexpress) https://www.rhonexpress.fr/en_GB/all-our-prices so 18,30€ total

The car rental is through Leo&Go: https://www.leoandgo.com/en/a%C3%A9roport

(I didn’t realize they had a 9,99€ fee for the airport, still impressively close)

Di4na, 4 months ago

@smlavine @fasterthanlime don't even start me on the maths of transportation from "semi-rural" to Paris or even less to "anywhere else urban". Rn to visit my gf on the other side of France, the best choices in terms of money, time, and complexity are car tied with plane, and far behind it in the dust is train. And I hate driving, and I hate airports. And love trains. And yet it wins by a lot...

ByAndBy, 4 months ago

@fasterthanlime the awful thing is this could be about any city in North America

fasterthanlime, 4 months ago

@ByAndBy and yet this is France!