@EUCommission why by 2040 in 15 years? Would be great to be more ambitious and aim for 2030.

@EUCommission *cough* Mediterranean corridor *cough*

@EUCommission Good to see this, there is already some progress (I just had a long weekend in Kracow from Budapest, direct both ways and only about 25 Euros each way). A centrally organised progress is what is needed, with appropriate funding.
It is far advanced compared to the awful USA train system!

@EUCommission Will train travel be more affordable than flying? That would be a huge incentive to get people to use the less polluting alternative.

@EUCommission 2040? Really? How about mandating better common ticketing now?

@EUCommission That's genuinely lukewarm.

@EUCommission
While you are sipping hot chocolate, we are cooking up 200+ km/h rail magic:

Faster journeys: Berlin → Copenhagen in 4hr instead of 7hr

= approx 100Kmh

In China. While sipping Green Tea

Over 3,600 bullet trains numbered by G, D or C run daily connecting over 550 cities

Example for HIGH SPEED RAIL.
Beijing-Shanghai,
1,318 km in 4.5 hours.
A second class ticket costs 60 Euro.

Hong Kong Beijing 2,440km in approx 8Hrs. 151 euro second class

https://www.travelchinaguide.com/china-trains/high-speed/

@EUCommission it's more likely I need to take a regional train than an international one. Please, let's focus on making it accessible, affordable and useful for everyone 🙏

@EUCommission
200? Even 250+km/h was futuristic and ambitious in the 60s to early 70s in Japan and France. Then they made it happen and deployed it in the timelines similar to those mentioned there (~15 years). Ordoliberalism is just a bad joke. You stripped people of their sovereignty against their will (Lisbon), and now offer them miserable perspectives while caving to the whims of billionaires and multinational corporations. Good luck doing PR for that shit show.

@EUCommission Mean while in Sweden: "We don't need high speed rail. Night trains were a mistake just take the plane scrub(!)."

I love our politicians. /s

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Lovely, but I want it sooner. Been waiting five decades already, getting old, and I may miss the train!

@EUCommission I agree with the rest: 200km/h by 2040 isn't ambitious at all. Eg. Finnish trains have top speed of +200km/h already. TGV (France) has been used half a century +300km/h. Europe needs more ambition in developing public transport and needs to have a serious look at financial equality in transportation as well. High carbon footprint shouldn't be something you can buy with money.

@EUCommission on behalf of the Deutsche Bahn I'd like to ask if trains crossing Germany are supposed to arive on time / at all.

If yes, how on earth do you plan to achive that feat?

@EUCommission 2040... This is just not good enough. European politicians have to get their act together and force those, who have not contributed their fair share while raking in billions, to finally pay appropriate taxes. Then it would be possible to transform our public transport systems much more rapidly and thus quickly reduce the appeal of flying. Remove lobbyists from Brussels, tax the billionaires, fight big tech, kick the far right out and work towards a fair and just society for all.

@EUCommission "While you are sipping hot chocolate, we are cooking up 200+ km/h rail magic:"

And how do faster trains help lowering the amount of people who can not even afford cold chocolate, let alone being on those trains?

Build homes. Protect the children. Stop pollution.

Get real!

@EUCommission you should do pan European / EU railway project with *high* speed rail (250kmh+).

Something like the attached image, which is missing a bunch of north-south connections like from Italy to Denmark (and to Sweden), Baltics to Greece .. Not sure what to do about Finland

The fact that European rail system is so fragmented clearly shows limits of the "union" "integration".

It is up to us to decide whether we want just vague union of independent countries or real body that acts like one.

@EUCommission Germany is not really improving it's rail infrastructure. So you are way too optimistic on this topic.

You will be quicker from Copenhagen to Lübeck thanks to the Danish building a tunnel. This might result in shorter trips to Hamburg. However, Germany is not improving rail connections from Hamburg. Thus, it might not get faster to any destination behind Hamburg.

@EUCommission My holidays started on rails most of the time in the 80s, because that was cheap and reliable.
They start more often on rails again now, as night trains become available again.
2040? That is not ambitious, that is disappointing to say the least...

@EUCommission I would prioritize punctuality over speed. What's the point of fast train if it will be always late?

@EUCommission And if you want to help make sure this actually happens, and doesn't just stay a laundry list of wishes, come join us at the European Rail Passengers Union where we are bringing passengers together to advocate for the trains we all need and deserve: https://erpu.eu/

@EUCommission looking very much forward to the easier & 1 ticket per trip booking. 👍

@EUCommission

Not until you authorize such big support to planes transport by EU members while at the same time you let (impose?) such a high taxation of trains ones.

Please stop force us to rephrase every one of your communication, stop lying to us.

We see it.

@EUCommission

we had good trains and all, conservative politics made by the party of the EU big boss destroyed everything.

by the way, hand out the Pfizer SMY or go straight to jail.

@EUCommission This actually sounds awesome! I really hope to see more long term investments into EU infrastructure, such as these, in the future.

@EUCommission Disappointed to see a 2040 delivery date and that Paris-Barcelona is not included among the routes scheduled for a fater journey - there's plenty of scope to speed up that route & eliminate air travel between those cities.

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@EUCommission I highly appreciate improvements of the European rail infrastructure. And I do understand, that the development of the actual railway infrastructure takes time.
But especially for the last point "one ticket for your whole journey" I think it shall be possible to implement this in a shorter period of time than 15 years...

@EUCommission Sounds very nice, except for the part with 2040. If we target 2040, it will be 2050. Can't we prioritize and speed up auch important developments?

@EUCommission Yes, please!