Rail networks in most countries have been starved of funding while motorways lengthen, study shows

There’s a bit of good news in here:

In the four years that followed (2018-21), the average gap in investment in rail and road decreased from 66% to 34%. During that time, seven countries invested more in rail than roads – Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Luxembourg and the UK – while the rest spent more on roads than rail.

But ideally we need a Wales style road building freeze across Europe. We have enough roads to get everywhere, it’s purely building for capacity now and we should be shifting that capacity to rail.

    • elouboub@kbin.social
      6·
      1 year ago

      French government: centre right (or quite right depending on which foot they step out of bed with)

      German governments hitherto: centre-right, capitalist, christian (current government trying to unfuck what was done)

      Spanish government: centre right

      Dutch government: centre right for what, a decade?

      Belgian government: lol, whatever the fuck they were up to

      Bulgaria: holy shit are they right

      Poland: kekw, do I even have to state it?

      Danish government: the “we hate immigrants” government

      What about the rest? I haven’t been keeping track.

      • drkt@feddit.dk
        1·
        1 year ago

        Our government doesn’t hate immigrants, they hate all poor people equally…

        I will re-iterate it because it’s an important point: We didn’t vote them. The center-right consolidated power and undermined our multi-party system despite most votes landing on the left. They are now using this consolidated power to do whatever they want.