• boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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    12 hours ago

    Yes, we’re doing that. But you still need to make flying too expensive for everyday use too. Current prediction is that when Rail Baltica is ready it’ll cost more than flying and it’ll also be way slower. It’s like a 3 hour flight to get to Germany vs more than likely all day on the train in a decade or two when it’s actually ready (deadline is 2030, which is now said to mean 2040 or later).

    It’s easy for those of you in the center of the EU. The rest of us first have to fly or drive there before we can even take the train and even when the railway is built it needs to turn a profit because the project is so expensive. Meaning it can’t be as cheap as flying has been before now. There’s billions in loans to pay back after all.

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      10 hours ago

      No shit it wont be easy and working immediadly everywhere. What is? And it does not nees to work everywhere at once. It does not need to be some macical over night build intercontinental mega structure. Simimarilly like good public transportation in cities lessens the need for private cars good inter city transportation lessens the need for cars, trucks and even flying.

      If you need to go to Germany fast, fly there. But if you would have options available where you can comfortably travel to your vacation to somewhere with reasonable price you might consider other destinations too.

      Also its not like it needs to be single entity bank rolling the whole railway system. Building new tracklines open whole world of cheaper transportation and locistic opportunities to whole slew of industries.

      And are you dim? I just said you dont need to penalize the flight systems. Just give people other options so they dont need to default to taking a plane.

      And i live no where near central EU.