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 threadJon Worth
@pony there’s a sort of logic here, but I think both of these ideas are ridiculous. Sorry! @ignaloidas
Sep 6, 2025 at 5:55amWeb