A rail renaissance is underway. Some of the projects financed by the Connecting Europe Facility of the European Union



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by EUstrongerthanUS

32 comments

  2. A single European Railway Area is long overdue. Less fragmentation and cheaper. Imagine what a federal Europe would do. 

  3. Poland completely forgotten and ETAs so long this generation won’t see the benefits anyways

  4. Very good, next step could be: EU-Wide Train Pass so you can have subscription and just use it to travel via any train system, within EU.

  5. One day we also be connected with you guys. One day.

  6. If we can go all Europe capitals with high speed train it’s a huge W.

  7. Berlin – Vienna in 4 hours would be absolutely sweet, if it happens in the next 10 years.

    I would also be thrilled to visit Bucharest by train in the 2040s, if I manage to retire by then.

  8. It would be good if there was an EU-wide ticket system, so there would be only one website where you could buy tickets for the whole journey instead of piecing the journey together with different websites.

    I would also imagine that it would be cost-effective to subsidize train journeys so people wouldn’t be so reliant on other forms of mass transportation and private cars, which would result in savings as infrastructure costs would be lower as roads and airports would have less traffic and stress.

  9. Looking at the map, it’s weird that Szczecin and Gdańsk (northern Poland) wouldn’t be connected, but I guess there must be a reason, although not sure which.

  10. I’ll be too old to travel and everything will hurt in 2040 🙁

    Please hurry!

  11. I wish this was already.
    But can’t wait until I can go rail travelling with my kids!

  12. I like how in the last picture they also go ehh take a boat to the canaries i guess. which still takes 34 hours, Like trains are cool and all but i’m still taking a plane to go to the Canaries.

  13. What the Fuck is that undersea line to the republic of ireland, the channel tunnel was a miraculous and incredibly expensive feat of engineering and this is like that on megasteroids

  16. feels great for you all. According to this map, we won’t have any improvement by 2049 in Slovakia

  17. damn I wish I’d be already 44 years old to visit Bucharest in 7 hours

  18. I remember that a conservative british newspaper was really pissed about England not being included in these plans…

  19. France blatant lack go rail ambition strikes again.

  20. Apperanyly also:

    2025(?) Budapest – Belgrade: ~~7:40~~ 2:40

  22. I almost spat my tea seeing the Athens-Sofia one. No thanks I wanna live.

  23. lol good luck bulding such thing in Czechia with our current legislation

  24. Make a network that will be as efficient as Japan’s please.

  25. Just make the whole EU-Rail net a single Railway company and pay it some good money and we can all have a nice time.

  26. Rail Baltica is so huge in the Baltics. Project of the century right there. Thank you EU

  28. I had the joy of using the german railway system for the first time in my life last week and it was so easy to travel halfway across the country in a short time.

    Finland being included in the railway system feels kind of odd (even though the gulf of finland is <only> some 80 kilometers wide at its thinnest point) and i’m not sure if it’s inclusion even brings any benefits because without bullet trains the benefits don’t really feel justified compared to flying. Not having to transfer to flight is probably the main advantage for those living outside the capital area of Finland, but i don’t see anything else really justifying this system for us. I guess it would be nice for interrailing?

  30. Providing a single web service to buy the tickets for trips crossing multiple countries would be a good start

  31. That’s a very good thing… if the prices are affordable. If plane is both faster *and* cheaper, I guess trains won’t get the traffic they deserve.

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