From patchwork to true European high-speed rail network: the costs and benefits
Map of the envisionaged European HSR network EY
Current high-speed rail (HSR) lines in Europe are like islands, scattered across the continent. But what would a fully interconnected European high-speed network look like? What would it cost, and what benefits would it bring? To answer these questions, Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking commissioned a study, which results were presented this week.
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A pity it is, currently TEN-T is short of resiliency. Thus recently, Sweden suddenly scrapped our high speed plans – just some months earier formally approved by parliament… (Surely temporary, but still a stop, based upon rising, costs – related infrastructure.)
Anyhow, Industry now urgently has to provide for Shift, to “The New Old Railway”, a safely calculable, with safely low and limited forces imposed.
(“RCF”, squats/studs, cracks and broken rails, neither is optimal, nor sustainable…)
It is interesting that when talking about railways there are many negative reactions. Almost no one complains about highways. Interesting. apparently, the costs and justification of the investment are important only for the railways. As you said, pity.
Dear Joze,
“Cemented” at standards optimal when steam was shifted out. (Industry of railways has “missed the train”.)
Not withstanding current traffic and speed – and even worse, in no respect upgradable -but with “longer trains”…,
regrettably fresh money now spent is not investing, but spending…
(No wonder if “many”, majority…, is negative. With no “breaking point”, all except a minority, including share holders of truck manufacturing facilities…, are gainers.)
Some notes on German +nearby routes:
Newbuild for Rostock not required, existing route (160 km/h) is adequate.
Chemnitz (pop. 243.105) just missed the threshold, therefore completely ignored?
Little need for Leipzig-Eger route, for Innsbruck-Lindau route, for Kassel-Dortmund route and for Frankfurt(Oder)-Görlitz-Zittau-Usti nad Labem section.
Szczecin to Poznan instead to Bydgoszcz.
Certainly some improvements to the respective existing lines make sense, targeted to improved regional transport.