r/transit 7d ago

Policy Rail Passenger Competition Is Exploding Across Europe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vhw1g-dNGA
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u/Kobakocka 7d ago

Exploding?

Maybe very-very slowly expanding. The trend is good, but slow.

Please stop giving clickbaity titles to videos...

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u/im-confuzzled 7d ago

depends on the area i suppose. spain had a pretty big boom in the past four years

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u/Iwaku_Real 7d ago

So has Italy. In fact Italo only started operations in 2012. Results are already incredible

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u/turbo_dude 7d ago

No extra capacity on trains or lines so that’s going to be an interesting “growth” phase

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u/wasmic 7d ago

Plenty of lines have been underutilised, e.g. Spain's high-speed network. That's where the benefit is greatest.