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Comment Re: It's not that "taxes are bad" (Score 1) 153

This is not simply untrue.
– The first french Ligne Nouvelle (LN1, Paris to Lyon), which is 409km long, runs along a major road (A5) for 60km only. And that road way built 15 years *after* the railroad, using its right-of-way;
– LN2 (Paris to Tours), 279km long, runs along A10 for 83km, using its right-of-way;
– LN3 (Paris to Lille/Eurotunnel), 333km long, runs along A1 for 130km, using its right-of-way;
– LN4 (Lyon bypass to Valence), 115km long, doesn’t run along any road;
– LN5 (LN4 to Marseille/Nîmes), 250km long, runs along A7 for 3km, using parts of its right-of-way;
– LN6 (Paris to Metz/Nancy), 300km long, runs along A4 for 115km (not using its right-of-way for the whole length though);
– LN7 (East of France), 138km long, runs along N57 (not a highway though) for 9km, using its right-of-way;
– LN8 (Metz/Nancy to Strasbourg), 106km long, doesn’t run along any road;
– LN9 (LN2 to Bordeaux), 302km long, runs along A10 for 10km, using its parts of its right-of-way;
– LN10 (LN2 to Rennes), 182km long, runs along A81 for 20km, using its parts of its right-of-way.

Basically, 430km of the 2414km of the those high-speed rail lines are along a road, which was built likely 50 years before the railroad, when high-speed rail was not even an idea.

Your whole demonstration is moot.

Comment Free (in France) already offers that option (Score 1) 109

Free, a network operator in France, already offers the option to block ads on both their fixed (DSL and FTTH) and mobile networks. It was first implemented and enabled by default) three years ago when they were “fighting” with Google about who should pay for interco upgrades.
It is now default-disabled and opt-in as they managed to reach an agreement with them.

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