Electric cars, hybrid automobiles, hydrogen fuel cells: this is the kind of technology that seems to be most commonly associated with the overall change towards green transportation in popular media. However, where personal green vehicles are indeed an important part of the green transportation evolution, the benefits of green mass transit cannot be discounted. High speed rail transportation in particular has been gaining some attention in Europe over the last two weeks after an announcement in France that the Channel Tunnel could soon be going green.

The announcement that the Channel Tunnel high speed rail cars might be going green came from Eurostar, the company that is responsible for virtually all passenger rail traffic through the Channel Tunnel and for lines connecting England, France, and Belgium. Eurostar has decided to invest over one billion dollars for the acquisition of ten new green train and for the refurbishment of their entire existing fleet in order to create a fleet that operates with lowered carbon emissions and with greener systems as a whole. Eurostar is also doing this as a means of providing a low carbon alternative to flights connecting the countries Eurostar rails already service.

http://www.justmeans.com/Eurostar-Plans-Operate-a-Newer-Greener-Fleet-by-2014/35098.html