I first met the wordâ#sneltramâin Amsterdam, for their very weird and ill-fated metro-tram mix from Amstelveen to Centraal. It was interesting they translated it to â#Stadtbahnâ
I also think #bruxellesmabelle could learn a thing or two from đ©đȘ Stadtbahns, so itâs cool the word is now used in French. #OVinBxl #ĂPNV #STIB #MNBS #DeLijn
Nouvelle étape dans la réalisation du "sneltram", le tram qui reliera Bruxelles à la région anversoise - La Libre https://t.co/BQiUXzA5zy
@Squig Soon these sneltrams will run at thesame speed as SNCB's slow trains.
It's depressing that this kind of marginal project is getting funded while the railways are crying out for more investment... You know maybe with a "sneltrain" and good bus connections you wouldn't need this tram line at all
@Squig Well I'm pretty sure this tram will demand yearly subsidies to operate.
Meanwhile speeding up SNCB's trains will allow them to run more trains without increasing the operating budget, and there'll be extra passenger revenue on top.
@Squig The 2nd investment isn't just an investment from the green POV, but also from a purely financial POV: it's cash-flow positive in the long run. It can trigger a virtuous cycle of more improvements, all the more likely to happen because the government will see it doesn't cost much.
And at the end of the process, maybe we'll realise that it's not necessary to build a tram line (even a snel one) on a parallel corridor to much faster trains.
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