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
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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