I have always travelled by rail as I was not in a position to afford a car and the reality is that train journeys suck and the only reason people do it is that they are poor or there is a convenient direct connection of fast trains that are overpriced.
A lot of time they are noisy, slow, dirty and expensive. You waste a lot of time transferring between stations, carrying heavy luggage and often if you don’t reserve seats to save money, you are left standing for hours.
Now that I own a car, never going back to rail.
My experience is from Deutsche Bahn in Germany.
We invest more in roads than in rails? Is this a parody article?
Why EU dosen’t invest in fast railroads to connect biggest cities like for example Japan. That would really connect people and economies and its eco friendlier solution than roads or airplanes.
EU is funding all kind of projects anyways so why they dont finance project like that.
That is because they are managed at a national level. European harmonisation regulations are so full of exceptions it’s not funny.
Rail network only work when there is a central manager. A break of continuity is the worst thing possible (for passenger and freight).
EU need to take over and fusion everything. During the industrial revolution, that’s what eventually happened to all private networks.
It is time to do the same thing at a bigger scale.
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I have always travelled by rail as I was not in a position to afford a car and the reality is that train journeys suck and the only reason people do it is that they are poor or there is a convenient direct connection of fast trains that are overpriced.
A lot of time they are noisy, slow, dirty and expensive. You waste a lot of time transferring between stations, carrying heavy luggage and often if you don’t reserve seats to save money, you are left standing for hours.
Now that I own a car, never going back to rail.
My experience is from Deutsche Bahn in Germany.
We invest more in roads than in rails? Is this a parody article?
Why EU dosen’t invest in fast railroads to connect biggest cities like for example Japan. That would really connect people and economies and its eco friendlier solution than roads or airplanes.
EU is funding all kind of projects anyways so why they dont finance project like that.
That is because they are managed at a national level. European harmonisation regulations are so full of exceptions it’s not funny.
Rail network only work when there is a central manager. A break of continuity is the worst thing possible (for passenger and freight).
EU need to take over and fusion everything. During the industrial revolution, that’s what eventually happened to all private networks.
It is time to do the same thing at a bigger scale.