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	How Green is Rail Travel?

David Hughes

8-25-2009 3:07 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/16a51fef-adb6-4140-b659-1a17ceec1d8d/4DCC03F5-C2C2-4F12-911F-3B1D70A83D22/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/how-green-is-rail-travel/" href="http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/how-green-is-rail-travel/" style="font-size: 11px;">greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/how-green-is-rail-travel/"><H2 class="entry-title">How Green Is Rail Travel?</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/how-green-is-rail-travel/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/img/801D6A55-3BB2-4ADB-B7B3-C65C8171E182" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/how-green-is-rail-travel/"><SPAN class="caption">A Eurostar train traveling to London. A new study says that train travel may not be as environmentally friendly as some have purported. </SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/how-green-is-rail-travel/"><P>Eurostar, the high-speed train service that connects London with Paris and Brussels, <A href="http://www.eurostar.com/UK/uk/leisure/about_eurostar/environment/greener_than_flying.jsp">advertises a tenfold reduction</A> in each traveler’s carbon footprint by comparison with an airplane trip over similar distances.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/how-green-is-rail-travel/"><P>In Britain, government officials have described the investment of billions of pounds in a new high-speed rail network as a green initiative. The Obama administration has budgeted billions of dollars to build similar networks in the United States, partly to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/how-green-is-rail-travel/"><P>But do all forms of train travel really offer such dramatic gains?</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4DCC03F5-C2C2-4F12-911F-3B1D70A83D22/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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