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.

      • @[email protected]
        2•2 years ago

        Assholes never miss an opportunity to vote. Failure to vote means willingly allowing assholes to win elections. Failure to vote is equivalent to saying “this is all fine and I don’t mind whichever way things turn out, better, worse, worse even, or worst”.

      • @[email protected]English
        4•2 years ago

        Amen ! I don’t understand how most people still believe that voting will make things better, especially voting for right-wing parties

      • elouboub
        4•2 years ago

        If we keep voting for corrupt, money- and power-hungry politicians, then yes, they will only serve capital. Garbage in, garbage out.

        Luckily, it’s not as bad as the rest of world, but nothing’s perfect.

    • @[email protected]English
      7•2 years ago

      Car companies and downstream suppliers are also quite a big part of the EU economy. There are significant lobbying efforts regardless.

      • elouboub
        7•2 years 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.

        • @[email protected]
          2•2 years 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.