European Commission unveiled its High-Speed Rail Master Plan for Europe today [more info in comments]

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  2. One ticketing app, one Railway Area! This would be amazing.

    EU Railway Agency also upgraded.

    *The mandate of the European Union Agency for Railways will also be revised in 2026, enabling the Agency to remove redundant national rules and issue authorisations and certifications more efficiently*

  3. I’m just saying that the situation in Spain, with all train routes centralized in Madrid, is pathetic and a laughingstock in the world — as of 2025, there’s still no high-speed train from Barcelona to Valencia.

  6. I know so many people who can only think of air travel instead of train travel. Train travel is so more relaxed, as there are less cumbersome security checks than air travel. Also a lot of people do not take in to account the traveling towards and from airports. Hopefully, there is budget to upgrade the railroads actually, since for example the Netherlands has currently no high speed rail to Germany.

  7. Yeah, I can totally see myself in 2040 taking a trip to Donbas and then to Chișinău by train going 300 km/h.

  8. Finally, a train that moves faster than EU bureaucracy.

  9. Very interesting that it includes Ukraine, even currently occupied regions

  10. they’ve finally realised the Lelylijn isn’t going to happen 😌

  11. Is this map supposed to be for Europe, EU, or something else?

    Why is the UK left out, but not Ireland?
    Why are Switzerland and Ukraine in?

    What a confusing selection of countries for a European Commission map.

  12. 2040 is when the entire project is completed but much of it will be finished sooner. 

  15. and yet the train line where i live has been decommissioned for decades..

  16. I didn’t know we have so many rails on water and none on the land.

    Someone was edgy and switched the colors..

  17. Luxembourg will still be pathetically connected for a good while longer. The connection between Trier and Koblenz is crucial for Luxembourg, but it seems to be really really low priority for Germany. I wonder if the Luxembourgish government could push harder here somehow.

  21. Yeah well trains here go at maybe 30 or 40km/h so gonna be interesting to see how they’ll pull this off.

  22. The political will and courage to make big improvements to (high speed) rail is missing unfortunately. It is easy to voice your support until you need to put your money where your mouth is.

  23. 2040, what a vague year in the future that almost no one today will be responsible for failing to deliver. Cool illustration though.

  24. Lol, the chances of there being a high speed rail link between Dublin and Cork by 2040 are as likely as us preventing climate change, or migrating pigs floating down to us from Sweden. 

  25. Haven’t they already revealed some form of this plan in like 2004?

  26. Through Hungary? Does a couple days delay acceptable for the high speed rail schedule? LMFAO

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