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European Citizens' Initiative for high-speed train connections between European capitals (eci.ec.europa.eu)

submitted 1 year ago by paramaramboh@lemmy.ml to c/europe@lemmy.ml

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the initiative does not go to far into details with this, but any acceleration of trans-european railway extensions is good in my book - you may want to read this

this is okay with the rules of this community, I hope? Still pretty new here, but I am not in any way connected to this initiative, I just stumbled upon it and liked it, and thought that others might be interested as well

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[–] eggnog@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

commenting to boost this, only 1 million signatures required and this is an incredible idea

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 1 points 1 year ago

@eggnog I'm boosting this from Friendica, so rest assured. Hope more people will see it.

I don't think it will make it too soon. Have you checked trains in South-Eastern Europe (specially Romania)? DB or SNCF seem like premium services compared to us. Trains are poorly maintained, bathrooms are a hit-or-miss (usually miss), there's no level boarding, you have to put an effort to get in the carriages - even for wheelchair accessible trains there are usually a couple of railway workers literally raising the chair through the dedicated door.

Not to mention trains here are low-speed trains - they run slower than they did in 1995.

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