Mastodawn

Europe is making a list, checking it twice… and upgrading its trains to high-speed – nice! 🚄

While you are sipping hot chocolate, we are cooking up 200+ km/h rail magic:

✨ Faster journeys: Berlin → Copenhagen in 4hr instead of 7hr
🚆 New routes: Lisbon–Madrid–Paris and Tallinn–Riga–Vilnius–Warsaw
🌙 More night trains for long trips
🎫 One ticket for your whole journey, and easier booking across borders

By 2040, your holidays might just start on the rails.

👉 https://link.europa.eu/hDyYBG

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Chris Dec 23

@EUCommission I highly appreciate improvements of the European rail infrastructure. And I do understand, that the development of the actual railway infrastructure takes time.
But especially for the last point "one ticket for your whole journey" I think it shall be possible to implement this in a shorter period of time than 15 years...

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European Commission

Thank you for the comment @BlackWolf!
We are working on the initiative that will allow passengers to find, book and compare tickets more easily on ticketing platforms, called multimodal digital mobility services. We are putting forward a proposal that will need to be reviewed by the European Parliament and the European Council, according to our democratic procedures. We can't exactly predict when this will pass.
You can track the progress of this legislation here: https://link.europa.eu/w3xKcv

Legislative proposal on multimodal digital mobility services | Legislative Train Schedule

As part of transport policy, the European Commission plans to present a legislative proposal on multimodal digital mobility services.

European Parliament

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Chris Dec 23

@EUCommission I'm happy to see that there is an initiative officially launched! That's an important first step. But, honestly, this has been launched back in 2021 and the last update end of 2023... it seems to be quiet (maybe it isn't as probably a lot of things are going on in the background, but it's not visible to the public so far)

Next to the political procedures, that are critical of course, please ensure to have the experts of the railway infrastructure providers and railway companies involved as well! This needs to be set up properly, so that it can be implemented in the most robust, safe and useful way possible. Based on open standards so that innovation can flourish.

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Chris Dec 23

@EUCommission oh, one more thing: why is there only the option to share that site on "X"? No mastodon? No European platform? What's all the fuss about #DigitalSovereignty if even the Commision is not taking that simple step of the #plus1-principle (adding Mastodon to the official social networking)? I mean you are here on the fediverse already. Why not just add that little button to your websites?