Harvey J. Miller

The length of motorways in Europe grew 60% between 1995 and 2020 while railways shrank 6.5%. For every €1 governments spent building railways, they spent €1.6 building roads.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/19/european-governments-railways-road-building-report-motorways-funding-rail?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

European governments shrinking railways in favour of road-building, report finds

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

The Guardian
Sep 19, 2023 at 1:52amWeb
Show threadPedestrianError  Sep 19, 2023
@mobileharv And yet this is infinitely *better* than the statistics for the US.
Show threadVE7FIMSep 19, 2023

@mobileharv

That's a lot of money spent to end up with less of something, which shows that a simple metric of length of rail vs. length of road oversimplifies things.

The real tragedy is the loss of so many small rail lines and connectivity to smaller communities.

Show threadcostrikeSep 19, 2023
@mobileharv We need to put an end to this crap
Show threadJocelyn EtienneSep 19, 2023

@mobileharv

What #European policy to promote the railway network
@EU_Commission ?
Or to level the playing field with #road transport, which is the biggest unfairly subsidised business in Europe, with billions of uncompensated public money in extending and maintaining the networks.

Show threadpollute_my_lungs 🚎🏳️‍🌈Sep 20, 2023
@mobileharv imagine if they built rail instead of motorways. Ugh.