The EU should increase and accelerate funding for public infrastructure projects such as this one, for both current and soon-to-be members. It would benefit everyone and boost the EU economy. I’m also happy to see that more connections to Milan are in the plans!
Too slow. Has to be more radical. They have to put trillions into it and build it within one decade, not two or three. This would also boost the EU economy.
@@ivd4086 Not bureaucracy.. real world politics. It’s easy to blame bureaucrats and complain about the speed of change but in a democracy where no one have supreme power to force changes through, change take time especially a change like a trans-European railway network spanning 20+ countries
Would be perfectly with a trans European High-speed rail network🇪🇺 A continent such as Europe is perfectly suited for high speed rail, and can possibly outperform aviation travel✈️🚅
@@kimlaursen8224 I didn't say that China has a perfect geography. Nor does Japan. It was _you_ who said Europe is perfect for HSR. Whatever, western Europe is mostly covered by HSR already and counting. Just in December the newest HSR section in Germany opened. It is 60km long from which 30km are in tunnels. Almost every country in Europe is busy expanding its HSR network.
@@kimlaursen8224 China also has a lot of unused highly expensive modern rail, that runs almost empty a lot of the time. Let's not build rail and houses just for building and raising GDP, lets make sure to build it where it is actually needed and used.
@@kimlaursen8224 Himalayas are in the south and in the west there is a lot of desertic part. Those parts obviously don't have many high speed rail so they don't metter. The est side on the other hand is a densly abitated region and it's mostly a plain, it's also the part with the most high speed rails. you can easily find a map to get a better idea
A great video like always. It would be nice if you make a series about the TEN-T explaining each part individually. Or at least make a longer vid that summons all of the TEN-T and it's goals and opportunities. Keep it up👍
The night train in this video from Amsterdam to Barcelona is over 1200 km, in a straight line that is, the actual distance is longer because of the specific route. It does go through France which has a quite well developed network so it's probably a high speed train.
@@paradox2579 Absolutely... night trains can be a solution for such long distances, although i don't think it will get very popular. But probably still popular enough to be economically viable...
@@deepinthewoods8078 it's a night train which has the additional benefit of you just sleeping most of the time on-route in a train that's more comfortable than short-haul airliners. When you're sleeping the entire time anyways, time spent doesn't matter quite as much
@@jan-lukas it's for the good sleepers. I'm also a good sleeper, except on night trains 😀. And it's an interesting route... if it comes from Amsterdam, it will probably stop in Rotterdam, Antwerp, Brussels and Lille too...
Absolutely make a video about the TEN-T. At first, I thought it was just a plan for a trans-european high-speed railway, but it looks much more complicated, so I'd like to hear an explanation!
My number one wish to the EU is to force all web sellers to allow costumers from every EU country to use any website and purchase any product and have it shipped anywhere in the EU. Today there are so many sites that you can’t purchase or book from if you happen to be in the ‘wrong’ EU country. Websites like wayfair only operates in Germany. They should be required to offer the same service to all other countries in the EU.
the thing I hate about trains is the price more then the speed. They can easily cost 4/5 times the price the plane costs so I am often brought to buy a plane ticket instead. I come from one of the rail hubs too(verona italy) but I still find them so expencive that I feel forced to take the plane(or car) even to not so far away destinations
it should be seamless to move freight and people by rail across the EU. I want to take a direct service from Madrid to Paris, Copenhagen to Berlin, Warsaw to Budapest, etc
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It's definitely an interesting project although from an Estonian point of view pretty pointless. Most of our travels go to Finland, and from there to more distant places in Europe and the world. We rarely travel to Latvia or Lithuania since there's no real need for it. To be fair, some people do use Riga as the connection hub for air travels and some Stockholm. Estonia's capital Tallinn and Finland's capital Helsinki are very close to each other and belong to the 'Gulf of Finland' socioeconomic belt stretching from Stockholm, Sweden to St. Petersburg, Russia. Most travels to Estonia and from Estonia are therefore understandably made to these cities, especially to Helsinki and Stockholm, and usually by ferry. Talsinki railway tunnel between Tallinn and Helsinki would be more important to us, as it would cut the traveling time between both capitals to 20-30 minutes (currently only planes do that) but we've been told that we can't have it without Rail Baltic high-speed railroad. Anyway, I wouldn't make Rail Baltic more important than it actually is. It's just another high-speed capable track that is going to be used mostly by freight trains and local trains inside each country. I reckon the busiest international route is going to be Kaunas - Warsaw.
"and hopefully lower prices". That's always the promise but it never happens. I've been using public transport across Europe for the last 10 years and it just gets pricier no matter what, even in real terms.
in Bulgaria the train and public transport in the cities is so low that I can't even imagine. With a car or a plane, the prizes are like 200-300% more, and even much more
Honestly what we really need is more standardisation. Another train company isn't going to solve that problem. For example the EuroNight service between Stockholm and Berlin provided by SJ is currently missing its restaurant and seating cars because Denmark hasn't approved the carriages yet despite SJ providing the necessary information over a year ago. The European Union Agency for Railways is supposed to approve carriages like this but Denmark apparently vetoed these because of concerns with some tunnel, but it really shouldn't have to take longer than a year to get carriages approved for cross-border services like this. At the time of writing I haven't heard any news of them being approved still.
Awesome. Train travel has so many advantages. I'm glad the EU is making it better and better. I think it will bring benefits on many levels, and make peoples lives more convenient. I would always go for a train rather then other modes of travel
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Well the delays in Germany are thanks to the privatisation of the DB in the 1990s. Nowadays the government is working on rebuilding the system but we have an pro cars minister (for the transportation) and we are still spending more money on car infrastructure than trains. Very sad
Lets not forget for countries that will soon join the EU and extending EU rails to those new countries how it will expand further and further.. I love this idea and soon all EU citizens can travel at their own comfort left and right.
@@Micha-qv5uf Sorry for the late response. Ukraine, Balkans, and Georgia seems interested too and probably countries outside the EU are also interested, but that are outside the EU like Azerbaijan, but that´s just far reach.. The EU will expand, but the EU will likely face reforms to make it happen.
@@Siranoxz I agree with that. I just disagree with the word "soon". This will take many years. Most of these countries aren't even close to fullfill the requirements at this point.
In reality it is today unfortunately so much more expensive to travel by train then airplane that i am afraid a lot more has to be done. Also the fact that after booking a 80 euro trip to Frankfurt by train you can not change the date only when buying a hyper-expensive flexible ticket is very depressing. Trains are trains and ride anyway. A smaller penalty should be more logic.
I just hope these long distance trains become significally cheaper than airlines. Sometimes the slightly cheaper ticket just isnt worth the longer travel time compared to a plane. I do like the idea of a nighttrain though....board the train,sleep,wake up at your destination.
@@EUMadeSimple Spain has traditionally had problems with trains because of mountains, but it is not the main reason here. The thing is that Extremadura is a rural, economically-depressed zone, that has always logistical problems that provoke trains to suffer huge delays, because of the temperatures and lack of personal, and other stuff
@@EUMadeSimple spain only has real developed areas in madrid, and both coasts, everything else is closer to the 1800 infraestructure. They even have yrains that dont fit in the tunbels...
Linking Lisbon to Madrid could have already been done if Spain hadnt rejected Portugal's proposal just because of the way they build their HSR, which is highly political. Truth is that an eletrified connection already exists in the North to Galicia but the train that runs there is still a diesel one cause Spain never migrated to the standard eletrification.
Apparently there is no standard Electrification. In another movie the different voltage and gauge standards for rails are put in parallel. So Portugal has introduced 25kV 50Hz and Spain has 3KV DC. which is also used in Belgium, Italy, Poland and Russia. So it is even more distributed than 25kV, but it is less suitable for High speed rails. Therefore I think, it is replaced by 25kV in Spain on new standard gauge lines. But Spain and Portugal up to now share the same gauge of 1668mm. To inroduce e.g. 25kV thereon in Spain would even increase the number 'of standards'
It would be nice to see what the current network is like if you tried to do the roughts they are wanting to improve. Would be nice to see the comparison between current and what the plan would fix/improve
With trains one also needs to think about the last mile. I wanted to visit a place some weeks ago. I was exited to see that the rail itself offered rental cars for the last mile. Just sad it turned out that renting a car from my place was cheaper that taking the train and renting a car from there.
and the reason to focus on germany and western side EU mainly is.... nothing about Portugal, Croatia, Bulgaria. Poland and Romania are barely touched while Germany is getting all its rail revamped
How you connect the train from Croatia - Grecce without passing Montengro - Albania ? For this W.Balkans should be implemented as EU member in 2023 to make possible stronger South eu counties as Grecce etc
I think you are vastly overstating the amount of extra service these additional routes will provide. We need vastly more high speed services for the railways really to compete with flying, and the prices need to be brought down.
More comfortable? No. From Vienna to Lisbon = Train: 15 hours and 400 Euro cost. Airplane: 2 hours and 50 Euro cost. All the airplane traffic in the world contribute around 1.8% of all greenhouse emissions according to "Our World In Data". At minimum 40% of all greenhouse emissions is because of eating meat. Nobody who eats meat or fish takes climate change serious and loses every right to talk about it.
For distances from 150km to 800km, which are a very significant percentage of the travels in Europe, high speed train is the best option when available. Nevertheless, flying is something that just a small portion of the population can do, even in Europe.
You have to be on an airport at least 2 hours before the flight and you have some more expenses while traveling to the airport and from the airport at the location where you landed so we have to include many factors. And btw these new Chinese trains can go up to 650km/h so in the future it will probably be fast just as plane...
Makes no sense to connect Lisbon with Madrid. Why would anyone would do that? Spain is basically a desert and it would take like 5 or 6 hours to cover that distance by train, currently it takes 9. It is better to fly, even if you don't like it. And from Madrid (let's be honest, there is nothing interesting there anyway) it would take 3 additonal hours until reaching Barcelona. It is always better to take a low cost flight. Travel by train is great, but in Europe, where you have a lot of cities and lot to see, not in the Peninsula that is almost a desert everywhere, with cities quite spreaded. And on top of that, you would need to cross the Pyrenees to get to the real Europe and there you have no tunnels or shortcuts, you can only do it near the sea.
I would love a video on the trans european transport network, however, I don't want a short 5min video; I'd prefer more detail ranging from its motivation, its implementation, expectations, etc.
Spain to France by train 4-5 hours, by plane 2 hours, but you need to be at the airport 1-2 hours early, with checking and stuff, so almost the same. I'd prefer the train anytime.
If you pay for it? Yes. But conventional rail is just so much cheaper, that building maglev doesn't make much sense right now. But it might be a good investment in the future, who knows.
Train stations are in the city centers... airfields are on the outskirts, sometimes hours away from the city centers. That alone should give you the answer why trains are the future.
Railway Network in Croatia are Terrible. During the Reign of Franz Joseph I. Trains in some parts whent with speed of 100 km/h. Today, those same Parts trains can go only with 20 km/h. Why doesn't EU put Money in Croatia's Rail? And why isn't put anything between Budapest and Zagreb?
@@bosnjodobri8260 Političari stalno govore kako nema novaca. Dobro da su napravili autoput do Ploča i Pelješki most! Sve ostalo bi od naših političara bilo teško za očekivati!
3:00 #3 "You enjoy the scenery" could be debatable. There is a sceenry from airplanes too, especially when you are let's say flying over the Alps, as opposite to travelling in the tunnels by trains.
A lot of poor countries has been left out. Looks like rich countries build connections between themselves and to popular summer destinations in Romania
Interesting and great proejct, cool video, I am sure it will help more people to understand what is going on within EU and how it works overall and what does for people, so russian propaganda would affect our people less and thus brexit scenario which still hurts a lot of people wont happen ever again. Wish this project would have included Ukraine, hovewer, I know that as for now it seems impossible cause Ukraine actually still uses soviet-time rails, meaning that we have to rebuild our railway first to properly integrate with EU or purchase a bunch of trains which are capable of switching track types, which is really not a good idea in a long-term perspective.
I've heard that Ukraine will be part of the EU rail network system as it was discussed last year ago since the whole war escalated. So Ukraine will be part of the high speed rail network regardless. The problems with trains and EU rails system standards will be settled, which isnt really an issue really. Ukraine will be part of all EU major mega projects, not just rails.
This is undoubtedly a good idea, if only for the reason that the freeways are always congested and people spend a lot of wasted time there. However, there is still a lot of homework to be done in order to make rail travel more attractive than cars or air travel. The first thing that comes to mind is speed. Then punctuality and reliability would be an issue. In all the points mentioned, one can learn from Japan and take over. Then there would be the customer friendliness of the company. I don't necessarily attribute that to the staff, but to the way the company treats customers. The DB (Deutsche Bahn) is an absolute disaster. Then there's the convenience, if I'm traveling from Copenhagen to Madrid I'm not interested in boarding a train that doesn't have a sleeper, bistro, internet access, (entertainment in general) or comfortable seats. The same prices for such a trip across Europe would also be helpful.
This is the complete wrong approach. Firstly the EU should set up a company that gets all EU track and administers it like a toll highway system where everyone can book a time slot on a particular line either once or recurring continuesly. To allow smaller and bigger operator's easily to have cross country networks. This and/or have a program like the American Highway act to build high speed rail, 250-350 km/h on average, between most European population centers. The first one should not be that expensive to do it is a purely political issue since most rail is already under public ownership so it would just need to be transferred from national to one EU wide company that can also standardise all the track and voltages across the EU.
@@herlescraft but thats the thing, the rail system is great within each country but very bad between them so my point is that I want that system Europe wide to make traveling between countries as it is within them. And yes it would be possible to do that with agreements between the different national rail operators but it would be faster, less paperwork, and most of all it would be way cheaper due to economics of scale. Its cheaper for one company to own 200km of track then it is for two to each one 100km.
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@@dariusalexandru9536 + east europe is super mountainous, a.k.a Balkans More than central europe and western europe Denmark is mostly flat area just like polland
As cool as trains are it’s just not economical. The EU should invest in airports and new turbofan technologies. It just doesn’t make any sense… unfortunately
While these projects are good, they are nothing more than a virtue signal to the people. These type of "initiatives" are secondary at best compared to what the EU should truly aim at.
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I think the EU should focus more on the demographic problems inside of the EU, like people (like us) wasting their time on youtube videos, instead of raising 3,4,5,6 children.
The EU should increase and accelerate funding for public infrastructure projects such as this one, for both current and soon-to-be members. It would benefit everyone and boost the EU economy. I’m also happy to see that more connections to Milan are in the plans!
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I am happy to see lots of connections with Munich also :)
You are in recession since the UK left you have no more money 😂😂😂😂
Trains ftw. One thing the EU really needs to work on though is an EU-wide train ticketing service for international rides
Too slow. Has to be more radical. They have to put trillions into it and build it within one decade, not two or three. This would also boost the EU economy.
And life is peanuts
It would be great
Funding is needed for other projects too, the other 75% of emissions.
Too slow? Europe already has a pretty good train system, this is fine and will serve mostly future generations.
@@ivd4086 Not bureaucracy.. real world politics.
It’s easy to blame bureaucrats and complain about the speed of change but in a democracy where no one have supreme power to force changes through, change take time especially a change like a trans-European railway network spanning 20+ countries
Would be perfectly with a trans European High-speed rail network🇪🇺
A continent such as Europe is perfectly suited for high speed rail, and can possibly outperform aviation travel✈️🚅
Actually, geographically it isn't perfectly suited because of all the mountain ranges. But hey, let's take it as a challenge rather than an obstacle!
@@hape3862 China got the Himalaya mountains. They got country covered high speed rail🤷🏽♂️🚅
@@kimlaursen8224 I didn't say that China has a perfect geography. Nor does Japan. It was _you_ who said Europe is perfect for HSR.
Whatever, western Europe is mostly covered by HSR already and counting. Just in December the newest HSR section in Germany opened. It is 60km long from which 30km are in tunnels. Almost every country in Europe is busy expanding its HSR network.
@@kimlaursen8224 China also has a lot of unused highly expensive modern rail, that runs almost empty a lot of the time. Let's not build rail and houses just for building and raising GDP, lets make sure to build it where it is actually needed and used.
@@kimlaursen8224 Himalayas are in the south and in the west there is a lot of desertic part. Those parts obviously don't have many high speed rail so they don't metter. The est side on the other hand is a densly abitated region and it's mostly a plain, it's also the part with the most high speed rails. you can easily find a map to get a better idea
Definetily a huge problem in Germany. Traveling by train from Berlin to Cologne costs barely less than flying.
Depends a lot on when you book, but yes!
A great video like always.
It would be nice if you make a series about the TEN-T explaining each part individually. Or at least make a longer vid that summons all of the TEN-T and it's goals and opportunities.
Keep it up👍
Great suggestion! and thanks :)
Trains have lots of advantages, at least for distances in the range of 200 to 800 kilometers...
The night train in this video from Amsterdam to Barcelona is over 1200 km, in a straight line that is, the actual distance is longer because of the specific route. It does go through France which has a quite well developed network so it's probably a high speed train.
@@paradox2579 Absolutely... night trains can be a solution for such long distances, although i don't think it will get very popular. But probably still popular enough to be economically viable...
@@deepinthewoods8078 it's a night train which has the additional benefit of you just sleeping most of the time on-route in a train that's more comfortable than short-haul airliners. When you're sleeping the entire time anyways, time spent doesn't matter quite as much
@@jan-lukas it's for the good sleepers. I'm also a good sleeper, except on night trains 😀. And it's an interesting route... if it comes from Amsterdam, it will probably stop in Rotterdam, Antwerp, Brussels and Lille too...
Absolutely make a video about the TEN-T. At first, I thought it was just a plan for a trans-european high-speed railway, but it looks much more complicated, so I'd like to hear an explanation!
My number one wish to the EU is to force all web sellers to allow costumers from every EU country to use any website and purchase any product and have it shipped anywhere in the EU. Today there are so many sites that you can’t purchase or book from if you happen to be in the ‘wrong’ EU country. Websites like wayfair only operates in Germany. They should be required to offer the same service to all other countries in the EU.
I would love more EU integration in terms of online shopping!
Lol
the thing I hate about trains is the price more then the speed. They can easily cost 4/5 times the price the plane costs so I am often brought to buy a plane ticket instead. I come from one of the rail hubs too(verona italy) but I still find them so expencive that I feel forced to take the plane(or car) even to not so far away destinations
Wait until you come to UK 😂
it should be seamless to move freight and people by rail across the EU. I want to take a direct service from Madrid to Paris, Copenhagen to Berlin, Warsaw to Budapest, etc
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Great briefing! Yes to a video on the Trans-European Transport Network.
Rail Baltica would be interesting. Its a project to connect the baltic states to europe
It's definitely an interesting project although from an Estonian point of view pretty pointless. Most of our travels go to Finland, and from there to more distant places in Europe and the world. We rarely travel to Latvia or Lithuania since there's no real need for it. To be fair, some people do use Riga as the connection hub for air travels and some Stockholm. Estonia's capital Tallinn and Finland's capital Helsinki are very close to each other and belong to the 'Gulf of Finland' socioeconomic belt stretching from Stockholm, Sweden to St. Petersburg, Russia. Most travels to Estonia and from Estonia are therefore understandably made to these cities, especially to Helsinki and Stockholm, and usually by ferry. Talsinki railway tunnel between Tallinn and Helsinki would be more important to us, as it would cut the traveling time between both capitals to 20-30 minutes (currently only planes do that) but we've been told that we can't have it without Rail Baltic high-speed railroad. Anyway, I wouldn't make Rail Baltic more important than it actually is. It's just another high-speed capable track that is going to be used mostly by freight trains and local trains inside each country. I reckon the busiest international route is going to be Kaunas - Warsaw.
"and hopefully lower prices". That's always the promise but it never happens. I've been using public transport across Europe for the last 10 years and it just gets pricier no matter what, even in real terms.
in Bulgaria the train and public transport in the cities is so low that I can't even imagine. With a car or a plane, the prizes are like 200-300% more, and even much more
EU needs to own a railway company dedicated for international travels. BTW - in that train photo there is actually a tram.
Honestly what we really need is more standardisation. Another train company isn't going to solve that problem. For example the EuroNight service between Stockholm and Berlin provided by SJ is currently missing its restaurant and seating cars because Denmark hasn't approved the carriages yet despite SJ providing the necessary information over a year ago. The European Union Agency for Railways is supposed to approve carriages like this but Denmark apparently vetoed these because of concerns with some tunnel, but it really shouldn't have to take longer than a year to get carriages approved for cross-border services like this. At the time of writing I haven't heard any news of them being approved still.
I wish it would be faster, bigger and more digital - this plan. But i am happy there is progress nonetheless. I love train travel in Europe
Awesome. Train travel has so many advantages. I'm glad the EU is making it better and better. I think it will bring benefits on many levels, and make peoples lives more convenient. I would always go for a train rather then other modes of travel
I also prefer train travel :)
Two of my major intellectual loves are the EU as a political institution and infrastructure. Yes, I want more.
Pls make a video over the entirety of TEN-T 🤩 great video!
Would the Rail Baltica project not be part of this, or is that considered separate?
Part of Ten-t
So I rediscovered this channel today (I was going through my subscriptions) and you have kept up the good work 👏
Now I know what I will do this evening
Great to have you back :) I remember you from waaaay back
@@EUMadeSimple you actually remember me?
@@dusenkarotte007 I remember you commenting yes :) you were one of the commenters when I was a lot smaller so it rings a bell
@@EUMadeSimple cool
I'm just gonna say it. We need a high speed rail connection between Munich and Salzburg. Austrian-German rail connection leaves a lot to be desired.
Well the delays in Germany are thanks to the privatisation of the DB in the 1990s.
Nowadays the government is working on rebuilding the system but we have an pro cars minister (for the transportation) and we are still spending more money on car infrastructure than trains. Very sad
great and informative video, subscribed!
Thank you. Happy to have you onboard :)
oh, you are from germany, it explains your points on some topics. Great channel sill!
I am from the Netherlands :) But live in Germany. Happy you like it and thank you for watching!
Lets not forget for countries that will soon join the EU and extending EU rails to those new countries how it will expand further and further..
I love this idea and soon all EU citizens can travel at their own comfort left and right.
I don't see anybody joining soon bro.
@@Micha-qv5uf But i do lol..
@@Siranoxz who would that be?
@@Micha-qv5uf
Sorry for the late response.
Ukraine, Balkans, and Georgia seems interested too and probably countries outside the EU are also interested, but that are outside the EU like Azerbaijan, but that´s just far reach..
The EU will expand, but the EU will likely face reforms to make it happen.
@@Siranoxz I agree with that. I just disagree with the word "soon". This will take many years. Most of these countries aren't even close to fullfill the requirements at this point.
In reality it is today unfortunately so much more expensive to travel by train then airplane that i am afraid a lot more has to be done. Also the fact that after booking a 80 euro trip to Frankfurt by train you can not change the date only when buying a hyper-expensive flexible ticket is very depressing. Trains are trains and ride anyway. A smaller penalty should be more logic.
I would like to see a full TEN-T video. It always stays very abstract for me.
I just hope these long distance trains become significally cheaper than airlines.
Sometimes the slightly cheaper ticket just isnt worth the longer travel time compared to a plane.
I do like the idea of a nighttrain though....board the train,sleep,wake up at your destination.
Don't have any kind of doubt the hardest one to build is the Madrid-Lisbon. And if it passed through Extremadura, you are going to need a huge budget
Why?
Don't know that much about the region. Assume its because of natural obstacles?
@@EUMadeSimple Spain has traditionally had problems with trains because of mountains, but it is not the main reason here. The thing is that Extremadura is a rural, economically-depressed zone, that has always logistical problems that provoke trains to suffer huge delays, because of the temperatures and lack of personal, and other stuff
interesting thx
@@EUMadeSimple spain only has real developed areas in madrid, and both coasts, everything else is closer to the 1800 infraestructure.
They even have yrains that dont fit in the tunbels...
I also would really like a video on the TEN-T!
Linking Lisbon to Madrid could have already been done if Spain hadnt rejected Portugal's proposal just because of the way they build their HSR, which is highly political.
Truth is that an eletrified connection already exists in the North to Galicia but the train that runs there is still a diesel one cause Spain never migrated to the standard eletrification.
Apparently there is no standard Electrification. In another movie the different voltage and gauge standards for rails are put in parallel. So Portugal has introduced 25kV 50Hz and Spain has 3KV DC. which is also used in Belgium, Italy, Poland and Russia. So it is even more distributed than 25kV, but it is less suitable for High speed rails. Therefore I think, it is replaced by 25kV in Spain on new standard gauge lines. But Spain and Portugal up to now share the same gauge of 1668mm. To inroduce e.g. 25kV thereon in Spain would even increase the number 'of standards'
It would be nice to see what the current network is like if you tried to do the roughts they are wanting to improve. Would be nice to see the comparison between current and what the plan would fix/improve
I love trains. But airline tickets are so affordable, that trains having competitive prices seems unrealistic
3:01 the germany one hurt a little
Great video! I love trains!
More train videos please
With trains one also needs to think about the last mile. I wanted to visit a place some weeks ago. I was exited to see that the rail itself offered rental cars for the last mile. Just sad it turned out that renting a car from my place was cheaper that taking the train and renting a car from there.
A shame it doesn't reach to Ireland
You have the cyprus issue
Be happy for the new ferry routes to France that avoids Brexit Britain.
Who knows if they will do something for southern Italy and southern Europe.
they are, they have been always, the Mediterranean corridor is just an example
@@jh5kl It's not enough, we are far from the level of transport that exists in northern Europe.
Rail baltica
👍❤️🤝💪✨️
Why are Poland and Baltic countries left behind?
Was thinking the same thing
But Poland is connected tho.
lol, you people are insane, why are you inventing fake news? baltics even literally have a dedicated mega project to them
and the reason to focus on germany and western side EU mainly is.... nothing about Portugal, Croatia, Bulgaria. Poland and Romania are barely touched while Germany is getting all its rail revamped
that's completely false
Another challenge is that some parts of Europe have a track gauge different from the rest, such as Spain and Portugal
How you connect the train from Croatia - Grecce without passing Montengro - Albania ?
For this W.Balkans should be implemented as EU member in 2023 to make possible stronger South eu counties as Grecce etc
yes i would love a vid on the trans-european network
Yes let's hear more about this in a longer more in depth video. 👍
I think you are vastly overstating the amount of extra service these additional routes will provide. We need vastly more high speed services for the railways really to compete with flying, and the prices need to be brought down.
Sana all nasa European union
it is
Yes please do a Video on TEN-T
As a German, I hugely approve of this project. Since us Germans are unable to make a useful railway system by ourselves, why not let the EU do it?
More comfortable? No. From Vienna to Lisbon = Train: 15 hours and 400 Euro cost. Airplane: 2 hours and 50 Euro cost. All the airplane traffic in the world contribute around 1.8% of all greenhouse emissions according to "Our World In Data". At minimum 40% of all greenhouse emissions is because of eating meat. Nobody who eats meat or fish takes climate change serious and loses every right to talk about it.
For distances from 150km to 800km, which are a very significant percentage of the travels in Europe, high speed train is the best option when available. Nevertheless, flying is something that just a small portion of the population can do, even in Europe.
You have to be on an airport at least 2 hours before the flight and you have some more expenses while traveling to the airport and from the airport at the location where you landed so we have to include many factors. And btw these new Chinese trains can go up to 650km/h so in the future it will probably be fast just as plane...
Im gone be the designer!
Makes no sense to connect Lisbon with Madrid. Why would anyone would do that? Spain is basically a desert and it would take like 5 or 6 hours to cover that distance by train, currently it takes 9.
It is better to fly, even if you don't like it. And from Madrid (let's be honest, there is nothing interesting there anyway) it would take 3 additonal hours until reaching Barcelona. It is always better to take a low cost flight.
Travel by train is great, but in Europe, where you have a lot of cities and lot to see, not in the Peninsula that is almost a desert everywhere, with cities quite spreaded. And on top of that, you would need to cross the Pyrenees to get to the real Europe and there you have no tunnels or shortcuts, you can only do it near the sea.
This is the most important Trans project since the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Can you please make a video about the planned EU satellite constellation IRIS2?
I would love a video on the trans european transport network, however, I don't want a short 5min video; I'd prefer more detail ranging from its motivation, its implementation, expectations, etc.
Spain to France by train 4-5 hours, by plane 2 hours, but you need to be at the airport 1-2 hours early, with checking and stuff, so almost the same. I'd prefer the train anytime.
We need a maglev high speed train connecting all capitals 🇪🇺
If you pay for it? Yes. But conventional rail is just so much cheaper, that building maglev doesn't make much sense right now. But it might be a good investment in the future, who knows.
YES
Train stations are in the city centers... airfields are on the outskirts, sometimes hours away from the city centers. That alone should give you the answer why trains are the future.
I would like to see more detailed video about T-ENT network
Cool
Railway Network in Croatia are Terrible. During the Reign of Franz Joseph I. Trains in some parts whent with speed of 100 km/h. Today, those same Parts trains can go only with 20 km/h. Why doesn't EU put Money in Croatia's Rail? And why isn't put anything between Budapest and Zagreb?
Treba i Dalmaciju dobro povezati željeznicom zbog turizma...
@@bosnjodobri8260 Političari stalno govore kako nema novaca. Dobro da su napravili autoput do Ploča i Pelješki most! Sve ostalo bi od naših političara bilo teško za očekivati!
Europe fine change totally
When you have to pass through security to board a train, like in Barcelona, then I would prefer to fly instead...
3:00 #3 "You enjoy the scenery" could be debatable. There is a sceenry from airplanes too, especially when you are let's say flying over the Alps, as opposite to travelling in the tunnels by trains.
In 0,5 Sekunden haben Sie einfach die DB hops genommen 💀
A lot of poor countries has been left out. Looks like rich countries build connections between themselves and to popular summer destinations in Romania
Interesting and great proejct, cool video, I am sure it will help more people to understand what is going on within EU and how it works overall and what does for people, so russian propaganda would affect our people less and thus brexit scenario which still hurts a lot of people wont happen ever again.
Wish this project would have included Ukraine, hovewer, I know that as for now it seems impossible cause Ukraine actually still uses soviet-time rails, meaning that we have to rebuild our railway first to properly integrate with EU or purchase a bunch of trains which are capable of switching track types, which is really not a good idea in a long-term perspective.
I've heard that Ukraine will be part of the EU rail network system as it was discussed last year ago since the whole war escalated.
So Ukraine will be part of the high speed rail network regardless.
The problems with trains and EU rails system standards will be settled, which isnt really an issue really.
Ukraine will be part of all EU major mega projects, not just rails.
I hope ukraine wont be part of the eu. We have already to many parasites in the eu, we dont need more!
Ukraine and Moldova were also included in the vision in summer 2022. There are newer version of the map in the beginning
Is that a tunnel from Ireland to France!
Put free WiFi on trains too
Didn't even bother naming a single romanian city .
This is undoubtedly a good idea, if only for the reason that the freeways are always congested and people spend a lot of wasted time there. However, there is still a lot of homework to be done in order to make rail travel more attractive than cars or air travel. The first thing that comes to mind is speed. Then punctuality and reliability would be an issue. In all the points mentioned, one can learn from Japan and take over. Then there would be the customer friendliness of the company. I don't necessarily attribute that to the staff, but to the way the company treats customers. The DB (Deutsche Bahn) is an absolute disaster. Then there's the convenience, if I'm traveling from Copenhagen to Madrid I'm not interested in boarding a train that doesn't have a sleeper, bistro, internet access, (entertainment in general) or comfortable seats. The same prices for such a trip across Europe would also be helpful.
Gonna listen to Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express again
Except for Germany.......soooo true😅😅😅!!
This is the complete wrong approach. Firstly the EU should set up a company that gets all EU track and administers it like a toll highway system where everyone can book a time slot on a particular line either once or recurring continuesly. To allow smaller and bigger operator's easily to have cross country networks.
This and/or have a program like the American Highway act to build high speed rail, 250-350 km/h on average, between most European population centers.
The first one should not be that expensive to do it is a purely political issue since most rail is already under public ownership so it would just need to be transferred from national to one EU wide company that can also standardise all the track and voltages across the EU.
Your first point is already in place in many European countries
@@herlescraft but thats the thing, the rail system is great within each country but very bad between them so my point is that I want that system Europe wide to make traveling between countries as it is within them. And yes it would be possible to do that with agreements between the different national rail operators but it would be faster, less paperwork, and most of all it would be way cheaper due to economics of scale. Its cheaper for one company to own 200km of track then it is for two to each one 100km.
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Lisbon to Berlin take a lot of hours
3:01 Some knows, he really knows!
why is eastern parte left out again ?
Not enough population
@@MHG796 is more population there then in the scandinavian region .
@@dariusalexandru9536 + east europe is super mountainous, a.k.a Balkans
More than central europe and western europe
Denmark is mostly flat area just like polland
is it normal for people in the Eastern part to create so much fake news? because in mine is and it's horrible and unacceptable
Transylvania is connected to the rest of Europe as well as Poland, Hungary, Czechia and Slovakia…
Such a network would be great - but it’ll probably take 20+ years so not so exciting after all.
I hope it's not based on Deutsche Bahn.
no rail baltica????
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I am sorry, it's a tram.
As cool as trains are it’s just not economical. The EU should invest in airports and new turbofan technologies. It just doesn’t make any sense… unfortunately
Greece has nice trains 💀
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People living in the EU: Good news!
Building with old trains...need mag rail or vaccum trains 1,000 miles per hour.... Outdated.
The EU should also ban private jets.
Who tells those fake news?
While these projects are good, they are nothing more than a virtue signal to the people. These type of "initiatives" are secondary at best compared to what the EU should truly aim at.
Za mało jest informacji prosto z Brukseli w Telewizji Polskiej i dlatego jesteśmy ogłupiani przez bandę Kaczyńskiego który przypisuje sobie że dzięki jemu i jego bratu spływa na Polskie Raj.
Infrastructure is the worst thing in EU, I can’t move from Zagreb (Croatia) to Warsaw (Poland) fastly.
Who is paying for this ????
I think the EU should focus more on the demographic problems inside of the EU, like people (like us) wasting their time on youtube videos, instead of raising 3,4,5,6 children.
Since many of the lines are planed to go through Germany, the project will just not work.
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