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
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.
