🌍 Europe Jul 20, 2026 · Marek Grzegorczyk

The wrong kind of speed

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The wrong kind of speed
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High-speed rail sells saved minutes. Most passengers would settle for a train that turns up, runs often and meets a second train on arrival.



Apostolos Tzitzikostas and Raffaele Fitto stood up in Brussels in November 2025 to launch the European Commission’s high-speed rail action plan, which proposes some 345 billion euros by 2040, and perhaps 550 billion by 2050, on a network joining the Union’s capitals. The transport commissioner promised Berlin to Copenhagen in four hours rather than seven

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