Guardian: "Why does anyone fly to Brussels any more?"

Ros Taylor from the UK's Guardian reports that 2/3 of the passengers traveling between London and Brussels go by train.

The piece of transportation infrastructure that makes this possible is, of course, the Channel Tunnel. The passenger carrier Eurostar carried nearly 7.5 million passengers through the tunnel in 2005.

It is fashionable in this country to deride the passenger train as obsolete. But as this story proves, where appropriate capital investment occurs, a reporter can credibly ask, "Why would anyone fly when he/she could take the train?"