The country with the most High Speed Rail in Europe is red. The UK, with an aspiration to have 1.5 High Speed Lines in the future, is not. Awesome 👍
umpfke on
Sauce of data?
Rhyman96 on
Pretty hilarious there is an inverse relationship with the amount and quality of high speed rail
kbcool on
Portugal is N/A because there is no investment in rail. Great motorways though
al_amhara1987 on
Perhaps it’s not only the amount.. france, spain and even italy have one of the best railways of the world.
SnooBooks1701 on
France, Spain and Italy all recently finished a massive round of rail investment
Leonie-Lionheard on
Kopenhagen just bought 200 self-driving trains for their metro. So I think the number for Denmark is very outdated.
Jaded-Natural80 on
I have been to Sweden a few times. And one of the things I enjoy is traveling the country by rail. I like everything about them, they’re efficient, they’re clean, they’re punctual and modern.
And I come back to the US and I want to cry. Our rail systems are old and you never know when you will arrive.
But hey, we can give Israel 100s of billions of dollars. Because they are more important.
ehs5 on
What is it with posts on this sub that just refuses to give the source?
HistoryFanBeenBanned on
Isnt the red good though?
A km of train line costs the same in steel and personnel. But the more people that use it drive down the cost?
Ok_Nerve7581 on
Now show the amount of subsidies to car industries per person
hexentanz on
as a swiss, i can say, the data for Switzerland looks accurate. It’s also propably the most expensive per capita train network in the world, but it’s also one of the most precise and well maintained ones. We measure delays in minutes, and they are not often delayed. See here if you’re interested:
There are a lot of Train lines all they way from “TGV” (train à grande vitesse) from Zurich to Basel and from there to Paris via Strasbourg. It’s in todays world very easy to book online and so on. 10/10 Paris Trip with SNCF.
Germany is OK too, when they rail. DB has some issues here and there and a bad reputation when it comes to timing. But else.. 10/10 Restaurant Cars and compared to Swiss Trains they are very cheap, nice modern ICE Trains, friendly staff in my opinion, and you can travel all the way up to Berlin by Train.
Italy.. well.. swiss railways even cut down the interconnected carriages, because they are delayed so often, which on a regular basis sent shockwaves of time diletation into the swiss railway timetables, which is not cool.
No idea about Austria connections, but there are for sure.
localhoststream on
Better title would be “Rail underinvestment per person per year”. Even for the hardcore car fans, better rail is beneficial as the roads will get less busy
ObjectiveMall on
The investment seems to pay off in the green/light green countries.
R3turn_MAC on
No source. No timeframe. No detail on what counts as investment. No detail on what types of rail are included. No data for a bunch of countries.
Useless map.
Far-Blackberry-23 on
Germany invested quite a lot into Western Poland railways a while back, whatever happened there.
MineElectricity on
Now what about cars and planes ?
BelatedGreeting on
Now do the USA 😂
Dom8331 on
This has got to be the stupidest color visualisation yet
oktaium on
it makes sense but it would make even more sense if it was normalized by gdp per capita or at least median income considering maintanence costs are heavily influced by how much they pay to people who maintain and build them in the first place
RandomIdiot918 on
I traveled on french trains. God I love them so much. Traveling from a random 2k pop town that’s 80 km from Paris to Montparnasse everyday really showed me what good rail transit means.
x236k on
Czech is wrong. It is over 200 € for infrastructure only.
IcecreamLamp on
Austria has recently been building 3 major alpine railway tunnels:
– The Koralm base tunnel (just opened), creating a direct railway connection between Graz and Klagenfurt for the first time ever
– The Brenner base tunnel: should greatly reduce journey times between Innsbruck and everything north of it (Germany) to Italy
– The Semmering base tunnel: should greatly reduce journey times between Vienna and almost everything south and west of it
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The country with the most High Speed Rail in Europe is red. The UK, with an aspiration to have 1.5 High Speed Lines in the future, is not. Awesome 👍
Sauce of data?
Pretty hilarious there is an inverse relationship with the amount and quality of high speed rail
Portugal is N/A because there is no investment in rail. Great motorways though
Perhaps it’s not only the amount.. france, spain and even italy have one of the best railways of the world.
France, Spain and Italy all recently finished a massive round of rail investment
Kopenhagen just bought 200 self-driving trains for their metro. So I think the number for Denmark is very outdated.
I have been to Sweden a few times. And one of the things I enjoy is traveling the country by rail. I like everything about them, they’re efficient, they’re clean, they’re punctual and modern.
And I come back to the US and I want to cry. Our rail systems are old and you never know when you will arrive.
But hey, we can give Israel 100s of billions of dollars. Because they are more important.
What is it with posts on this sub that just refuses to give the source?
Isnt the red good though?
A km of train line costs the same in steel and personnel. But the more people that use it drive down the cost?
Now show the amount of subsidies to car industries per person
as a swiss, i can say, the data for Switzerland looks accurate. It’s also propably the most expensive per capita train network in the world, but it’s also one of the most precise and well maintained ones. We measure delays in minutes, and they are not often delayed. See here if you’re interested:
[https://company.sbb.ch/en/company/responsibility/customers/punctuality.html](https://company.sbb.ch/en/company/responsibility/customers/punctuality.html)
There are a lot of Train lines all they way from “TGV” (train à grande vitesse) from Zurich to Basel and from there to Paris via Strasbourg. It’s in todays world very easy to book online and so on. 10/10 Paris Trip with SNCF.
Germany is OK too, when they rail. DB has some issues here and there and a bad reputation when it comes to timing. But else.. 10/10 Restaurant Cars and compared to Swiss Trains they are very cheap, nice modern ICE Trains, friendly staff in my opinion, and you can travel all the way up to Berlin by Train.
Italy.. well.. swiss railways even cut down the interconnected carriages, because they are delayed so often, which on a regular basis sent shockwaves of time diletation into the swiss railway timetables, which is not cool.
No idea about Austria connections, but there are for sure.
Better title would be “Rail underinvestment per person per year”. Even for the hardcore car fans, better rail is beneficial as the roads will get less busy
The investment seems to pay off in the green/light green countries.
No source. No timeframe. No detail on what counts as investment. No detail on what types of rail are included. No data for a bunch of countries.
Useless map.
Germany invested quite a lot into Western Poland railways a while back, whatever happened there.
Now what about cars and planes ?
Now do the USA 😂
This has got to be the stupidest color visualisation yet
it makes sense but it would make even more sense if it was normalized by gdp per capita or at least median income considering maintanence costs are heavily influced by how much they pay to people who maintain and build them in the first place
I traveled on french trains. God I love them so much. Traveling from a random 2k pop town that’s 80 km from Paris to Montparnasse everyday really showed me what good rail transit means.
Czech is wrong. It is over 200 € for infrastructure only.
Austria has recently been building 3 major alpine railway tunnels:
– The Koralm base tunnel (just opened), creating a direct railway connection between Graz and Klagenfurt for the first time ever
– The Brenner base tunnel: should greatly reduce journey times between Innsbruck and everything north of it (Germany) to Italy
– The Semmering base tunnel: should greatly reduce journey times between Vienna and almost everything south and west of it
Ireland 😬
Iceland should be red because 0 is under 100 euro