Jon WorthSep 5, 2025

#Bullshitmeter No, there is not going to be a Turku 🇫🇮 - Stockholm 🇸🇪 fixed link (tunnels, bridges)

Too far, too expensive, not enough people living either side

Maybe instead Sweden could complete its high speed railway south of Stockholm *that does make sense* but they can't find money for?

Show threadIgnas KielaSep 5, 2025
@jon I could see why you'd want to build Tallinn - Helsinki tunnel (there is a whole bunch of existing travel by not that cheap ferries) even if that's a propostreous project that would need a massive amount of things to go right to ever happen.

This, I don't see any kind of justification for building. It's just way too far, with too little people for it to make sense. A tad easier because a bunch of islands on the way, but it's still, way, way too big of a project for what benefits could be had any time soon.
Show thread🌺 Cat PöñíçkøvāSep 5, 2025
@ignaloidas @jon in a way, it’s much more attractive than rail baltica from the Finnish perspective, because it’s then like maybe 3 hours to Stockholm and 2-3 more to Copenhagen possibly, unlike rb which is like what, 6 hours best case scenario to Warsaw (where you didn’t want to go anyway)
Show threadIgnas Kiela
@[email protected] @jon I guess? I don't see it being attractive enough from a cost perspective tho, I'd guess for the money you'd need for such link you could upgrade from Tallinn to Berlin to 350km/h.
Sep 5, 2025 at 6:09pmWeb
Show thread🌺 Cat PöñíçkøvāSep 5, 2025
@ignaloidas @jon news article isn’t really a proper survey, it’s not enough to even start guessing the costs. I’m just saying in terms of benefits, you can easily see why would you maybe want to pitch it over the rb which isn’t really all that exciting for Finland either
Show threadIgnas KielaSep 5, 2025
@[email protected] @jon I mean, I have zero clue about the costs, I'm just guesstimating them myself. But they're not gonna be low.