the initiative does not go to far into details with this, but any acceleration of trans-european railway extensions is good in my book - you may want to read this
this is okay with the rules of this community, I hope? Still pretty new here, but I am not in any way connected to this initiative, I just stumbled upon it and liked it, and thought that others might be interested as well
You must log in or register to comment.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention! It’s a really good idea!
Nice! I just signed it. You can sign it with your eID and your smartphone, even in Germany!
just bring be 1950 trains. their tickets cost 1/3 of high speed train ones and are just 25% slower. but still agree, if the goal of this is to abolish planes. baby steps i guess
commenting to boost this, only 1 million signatures required and this is an incredible idea
@eggnog I’m boosting this from Friendica, so rest assured. Hope more people will see it.
I don’t think it will make it too soon. Have you checked trains in South-Eastern Europe (specially Romania)? DB or SNCF seem like premium services compared to us. Trains are poorly maintained, bathrooms are a hit-or-miss (usually miss), there’s no level boarding, you have to put an effort to get in the carriages - even for wheelchair accessible trains there are usually a couple of railway workers literally raising the chair through the dedicated door.
Not to mention trains here are low-speed trains - they run slower than they did in 1995.
That sounds like a great idea for most EU countries.
For countries like Malta, Cyprus, Ireland and Finland, that might become very expensive.
well, one could opt for seamless rail-to-ferry interchanges for these specific cases
in the case of Finland, a rail-on-ferry option could at least be considered, that country has a rail network of its own, after all
I’ve had a pleasant experience with rail-on-ferry when I traveled to Sicily. It probably wouldn’t work for Finland, however, as their train gauge is 1522mm rather than the common 1435mm.
Rail-to-ferry should work, however. Stockholm has very pleasant ferries to Turku and some that take a little longer to Helsinki. Both should help connect Finland.
