๐ One journey. One ticket. Full rights.
Weโre making cross-border train journeys simpler:
๐ซ One booking across rail operators
Find, compare and book trains from different operators in one transaction.
๐ก๏ธ Full passenger rights for the whole journey
If you miss a connection on a single ticket, youโll get assistance, including rerouting, reimbursement and compensation.
๐ฒ Clearer pricing info
Travel options shown fairly and clearly, so you can easily compare and choose.
You're still purposefully and recklessly exempting kerosene from taxes.
You're still purposefully and recklessly tilting the playing field towards the fossil fuels and aviation industry, disadvantaging rail operators.
Your figue leaf politics don't fool anyone.
Let me guess: You voted for a de facto climate crisis denying party in the last Dutch elections. /s
@proscience @Voyageur_Pragmatique That's a strange reply to a good argument. If I didn't know better, I'd start to think that maybe you had no substantial reply and then resolved to an ad hominem fallacy ๐ฎ
In any case, I proudly voted Bij1. Who, I think, are quite conscientious about the climate crisis. I'm also not so cynical towards the EU.
If you truly believe this lazy excuse, I can connect you to a Nigerian prince to make you rich. /s
The Commission is totally free to draft legislative proposals to end the tax exemption of kerosene.
That they don't and at the same time greenwash fossil gas, and roll back fossil-weaning measures that have already been *law* proves their recklessness.
Enjoy the consequences of climate change!
@EUCommission Until train travel is subsidised in the same manner that air travel is, the pure economy behind inter-european train travel will prevent many from doing the right thing, even if they wanted to.
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For many people, the added time alone is a show stopper, but when you add VAT, energy taxes, and other strange costs on top of that, train travel isn't as easy to choose as it should be.
Precisely that ๐
The EU is a lot about the stick and not so much about the carrot. Or put in a different way, it frequently seems like the left hand doesn't know (or want to know) what the right hand is doing.
@joho @skulesz @EUCommission A curious datapoint: back when there were price limits imposed on cell carriers for a migration towards no price differences when roaming, it resulted in Vodafone Portugal being cheaper to use abroad than within borders, because the pricing was *that* high.
It was easy for me to understand the goal of these limits, yet it was also something that made it clear some prices were excessively high. Perhaps I could summarize that one as: not a problem with the measure, but an indication of another problem.
Now if I were to comment on train travel... Portugal is lacking cross-border long-distance travel - some will insist this is because it's not "profitable" or "sustainable", but there's still no night train out of Lisbon, nor some daytime Intercity-like service. IIRC there are currently two links, Celta (which could be described as a regional service, albeit labeled "International") and the regional Entroncamento-Badajoz (not considered "International").
Reportedly Renfe has had interest in extending services to Lisbon, and CP has had some degree of interest (or maybe it was preference?) in bringing back Sud. At the very least, a good night service would allow connecting with daytime higher-speed services once in Spain or France, and I seriously doubt it'd not have demand.
Local travel isn't much better, part of the capital area has been for years with worse service on weekends and holidays, and besides less frequent services, this even includes a transfer with 23 minutes between trains in one direction of what is a route with high demand.
There may currently be a shortage of rolling stock, but that doesn't explain the apparent slowness in putting long distance railcars back into service (there's reportedly a too big backlog of these, while Intercity services face high demand) or the above mentioned worse commuter service (the previous offering, much better, needed less rolling stock...).
(A note re: .pt-.es cross-border travel, just in case anyone wonders about that: gauge is not the issue. ATP, electrification and certification are the stumbling blocks, but gauge has not been an issue for years with gauge changers and compatible rolling stock, including high-speed trainsets.)
@Hayertjez @joho well sounds like a subsidy to me.
Why is that?
How did that happen historically?
It is a subsidy. I have no idea how this happened historically because I haven't bothered looking it up.
But the point being that if the EU wants people to use more environmentally friendly (or "less destructive") travel methods, they need to lower the threshold, or at least make the alternatives balanced.
Shouldn't the direct train Prague <-> Copenhague make this already a lot easier?
It's a step in the right direction, but unfortunately this doesn't deliver for passengers. Rights should not be contingent on how and where tickets are purchased. Under your proposal:
โ Not all journeys will be available with rights.
โ Journeys that can be made with rights will come with extra hassle and a price premium.
โ Passengers will lose flexibility and options.
There is a better way! ๐๏ธ
https://erpu.eu/en/the-eus-rights-and-ticketing-proposal-explained
Whatโs this all about? Two big hurdles for people wanting to choose the train for cross-border journeys are the difficulty to buy a ticket, and the lack of rights when things go wrong. At the moment finding and purchasing tickets for many journeys can be challenging, requiring visiting multiple disparate websites and platforms. On top of that, passenger rights โ like rerouting in cases of a missed connection and delay compensation โ are not necessarily guaranteed when your trip involves multiple operators.
Thanks for your work and explainer, ERPU. How can we support you bringing them further in the next phase?
Ursula von der Leyen called her disciples, the Commissioners, to gather around. Holding up a bound edition of the Political Guidelines, she conferred a great responsibility onto each of them. Beckoning disciple for transport, Apostolos Tzitzikostas, towards her, she gave him his instructions: "cross-border train travel is still too difficult
@EUCommission my worst experience with cross border travel are required reservations and too rare connections (and stupid air travel like rules).
A flexible connection is much more important than a few Euros compensation for a missed connection in a tiny border town without accommodations available.
Competition will not fix anything without necessary capacity and frequency. Do not just apply aviation style ideas to train travel!
@EUCommission Yes please! Let's make public transport more convenient and move people more efficiently at lower ecological costs.
Lets also implement the ETCS control system.
But without App, please!!
@EUCommission Great! Anything to make rail travel easier. 
So, now that that's done, will y'all find the time to start taxing airlines? :)
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