I love how every big railway or road project is marketed as a kind of “Silk Road”.
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What does the smart Zombie say? “Traaaaiiiins!”
This is all about a passager (high speed) railways but it looks to me everyone is forgetting about cargo trains. For example here in Czechia there we need a new freight-only railway west-east corridor (constant speed 100 – 120 km/h, maximum gradient 12 ‰) while all current railways are floaded with passager trains of all kind so cargo has sometimes very hard time to pass through all of this. And it’s even worse while the capacity of main railways is overdrafted (I wouldn’t be surprised if the section Praha – Kolín is the most overused in whole Europe) which means there is more trains that should be and there is no reserves.
I don’t get it, war against Russia is supposed to start any minute now, and they’re suggesting a speed train that would connect Western Europe directly to Moscow?
That Lyon-Moscow route the project singles out is actually a shorter version of a Faro-Nijni-Novgorod one that I happened to discover by myself a few weeks ago, while randomly looking at maps with high speed lines in mind.
The number of important cities on a very very straight line is incredible. Madrid, Zaragoza, Huesca, Toulouse, Saint-Étienne, Lyon, Geneva, Lausanne, Bern, Zurich, Ulm, Ingolstadt, Regensburg, Plzeň, Prague, Wrocław, Łódź, Warsaw, Białystok, Minsk, Smolensk, Moscow and Vladimir all come in rapid succession. This really is a promising corridor!
Highly doubtful. The impact of many thousands kilometers of rail on nature is high. Construction (Lyon-Moscow) takes decades and is very dirty. And very inflexible, transport by train is slow. Compared with the construction and maintenance of just a runway, it has so many disadvantages.
In a few decades, planes CAN be made CO2 neutral. Fly on next-gen batteries or hydrogen. From runway, take a high speed train to city centre.
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I love how every big railway or road project is marketed as a kind of “Silk Road”.
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What does the smart Zombie say? “Traaaaiiiins!”
This is all about a passager (high speed) railways but it looks to me everyone is forgetting about cargo trains. For example here in Czechia there we need a new freight-only railway west-east corridor (constant speed 100 – 120 km/h, maximum gradient 12 ‰) while all current railways are floaded with passager trains of all kind so cargo has sometimes very hard time to pass through all of this. And it’s even worse while the capacity of main railways is overdrafted (I wouldn’t be surprised if the section Praha – Kolín is the most overused in whole Europe) which means there is more trains that should be and there is no reserves.
I don’t get it, war against Russia is supposed to start any minute now, and they’re suggesting a speed train that would connect Western Europe directly to Moscow?
That Lyon-Moscow route the project singles out is actually a shorter version of a Faro-Nijni-Novgorod one that I happened to discover by myself a few weeks ago, while randomly looking at maps with high speed lines in mind.
The number of important cities on a very very straight line is incredible. Madrid, Zaragoza, Huesca, Toulouse, Saint-Étienne, Lyon, Geneva, Lausanne, Bern, Zurich, Ulm, Ingolstadt, Regensburg, Plzeň, Prague, Wrocław, Łódź, Warsaw, Białystok, Minsk, Smolensk, Moscow and Vladimir all come in rapid succession. This really is a promising corridor!
Highly doubtful. The impact of many thousands kilometers of rail on nature is high. Construction (Lyon-Moscow) takes decades and is very dirty. And very inflexible, transport by train is slow. Compared with the construction and maintenance of just a runway, it has so many disadvantages.
In a few decades, planes CAN be made CO2 neutral. Fly on next-gen batteries or hydrogen. From runway, take a high speed train to city centre.