Swiss House blocks subsidies for night train to Sweden
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-politics/swiss-house-blocks-subsidies-for-night-train-to-sweden/90607080?utm_source=multiple&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=news_en&utm_content=o&utm_term=wpblock_highlighted-compact-news-carousel
Posted by Heavy-Mycologist-204
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I was looking forward to this 🙁
Disappointing as fuck.
*”The subsidy would amount to CHF100 to CHF200 per ticket.”*
How on Earth can we **fly** to Copenhanguen for less than the **subsidy** of a train ticket?!
good. Should invest that money into the local network which is more important.
finally some sense. What % of population would benefit from this. Also, what % of travelers to copenhagen would take this over a flight??
Good
Good. People should get that a nighttrain is something for idealists and not a serious form of transportation to transport a large amount of people over long distances. The nighttrain is even slower than going by car.
Makes sense, if you want people to fly less, internalise their external costs, i.e. introduce a tax on flights that covers their environmental costs.
Subsidising night trains, one of the most inefficient way of travelling because the carriages can only get used for one trip per day, with 200 Fr. per passenger is plain stupid. I think a lot of people have a clouded and romantic image of night trains here.