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European Citizens' Initiative for high-speed train connections between European capitals (eci.ec.europa.eu)
submitted 3 years ago by 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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[–] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

just bring be 1950 trains. their tickets cost 1/3 of high speed train ones and are just 25% slower. but still agree, if the goal of this is to abolish planes. baby steps i guess

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    [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    That sounds like a great idea for most EU countries.

    For countries like Malta, Cyprus, Ireland and Finland, that might become very expensive.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    well, one could opt for seamless rail-to-ferry interchanges for these specific cases

    in the case of Finland, a rail-on-ferry option could at least be considered, that country has a rail network of its own, after all

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    I've had a pleasant experience with rail-on-ferry when I traveled to Sicily. It probably wouldn't work for Finland, however, as their train gauge is 1522mm rather than the common 1435mm.

    Rail-to-ferry should work, however. Stockholm has very pleasant ferries to Turku and some that take a little longer to Helsinki. Both should help connect Finland.

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    • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Nice! I just signed it. You can sign it with your eID and your smartphone, even in Germany!

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    [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Thank you for bringing this to my attention! It's a really good idea!

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    [–] 1 point 3 years ago

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

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