If you are passionate about trains, raise your hand! 🚆🙋♀️🙋♂️
Discover our new cross-border rail initiatives in the EU that are reshaping train travel.
These projects cover routes from Hungary to Austria and Romania, Paris, Milan, and Venice, setting the foundation for future routes and increased travel options.
As mobility discussions play a crucial role in shaping the future of transportation, join us at #ConnectingEurope Days 2024 in Brussels until the 5th of April.
@EU_Commission For an union that is 30 years old this map is quite embarrassing.
@EU_Commission Ignoring Greece, again
Dear @EU_Commission ,
it looks like a flight map. 🤣🤣🤣✈️🛫🛬
Me alegra ver que la Comisión apoya la conexión directa de A Coruña con Lisboa, la conexión ferroviaria de Galicia con Portugal es una asignatura pendiente, solo existe un trenecito muy precario.
Solo queda que la conexión sea apoyada desde el Estado Español, que suele desechar proyectos de transporte que no pasen por Madrid,
@EU_Commission
Sadly, a decent railroad connection from Liège to Maastricht to Aachen is still impossible. Decades of talking, debating, and still, hardly anything to call "a decent connection".
@EU_Commission we should connect Portugal to Europe.
Instead of flights, we should be aiming for optimising European railway systems in order to connect countries more effectively and remove the dependency of airplanes which are really harmful for the environment.
@EU_Commission I can only hope this map is not the real concept... There is no connection between major population centers of Germany like #ruhrarea and France or Netherlands
Is it just about showing some well known city names?
Most of the projects seem to avoid the dysfunctional German railway network. So it looks like those projects might indeed work.
@EU_Commission I find it ironic that the first option on the practical information page on how to get to the convention centre for the #ConnectingEurope days is ‘get there by plane’…
Eu love you but your map is uncomplete.
Here is a morecomplete one:
https://www.inat.fr/map/obb-nightjet/
@EU_Commission
From the replies I see people in Europe complain about train service. In America we wonder what train service is.
@EU_Commission click on the link and then on “practical information” : it opens with air traffic as first option :(
@EU_Commission I love travelling by train and I'm very impressed by Austrian Railways but the continent is badly let down by DeutscheBahn which is appalling.
@EU_Commission Night time sleeper capacity should go 5x high at summer. Especially from Stockholm. Build capsule sleepers for economy travel.
@EU_Commission I assume these are new direct train connections? As many existing international connections are not shown?
Let's also work on improving the existing connections. Being a regular train traveller from Amsterdam to Copenhagen: this journey takes > 12 hours with at least 3 changeovers that add 2 hours to the journey. (If there is no strike or severe delays in Germany..)
And let's tax airplane fuel so that traveling by train becomes financially competitive and attractive.
@EU_Commission help northern Spain to stay in touch with Europe, please ❤️
@EU_Commission
Nice start!
