On 28/02/2012 6:01 PM, Erilar wrote:
wrote:
What are the things which affect people's decision to travel by plane or
train or car when going on holiday? I love trains, and avoid short-haul
flights in favour of the train. I'm curious why more people don't go by
train for trips around Europe? Is it mainly price or time are there
other reasons too?

I don't know about others, but when I'm once in Europe, I prefer trains. I
can sightsee without worrying about traffic and parking, which would be a
major problem, since I travel alone. I find flying incredibly boring as
well as confining, and the preliminaries are even more boring and extremely
irritating as well. Unfortunately, I have to fly TO Europe, as trains
don't run across the ocean.

Trains in the US just don't run many places and can be hours late besides
because the cargo trains own the tracks. There are also few of them away
from the coast, and they don't always have handy bus stations or even taxi
service at ecery station.

Train travel is much better in Europe than in North America. We had a
great time travelling around Europe on a rail pass. We had lots of
options for destinations and departure times. I live close to a
Canadian rail line and it is a passenger corridor from the US to
southern Ontario, There are only three trains a day each way.

My son was in France last fall and took the train from Paris to
Montpellier to visit a friend. It is close to 500 miles and the travel
time was only 3 hours and did not require the long trip out to the
airport at extra cost.