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Re:More emphasis on trains in Europe to replace flights by brnt on Saturday February 15, 2020 @09:00AM (#22335322)
The Netherlands had the highest ticket price in the EU. When I lived in France I'd take a TGV on a regular basis but in NL train are not fast, don't go far (connections abroad are bad except to or through Brussels) and very expensive.

Dutch rail infra was designed as a commuter network, and it shows.

Re:More emphasis on trains in Europe to replace flights by tluyben2 on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @09:29AM (#22365659)
So we are doing anecdotals or is that real data? UK as worst example I have seen but with many countries in Asia having by the second average times, NL is, for such an organised tiny shithole (I am dutch, born and raised and dutch genes going back to at least 1560 if that makes a difference) it is quite horrible really; you would expect much better for such bit mouths. I take and took the utrecht amsterdam train daily and it is delayed or cancelled a lot. I would expect 99.9999999999999999999 uptime for a country the size as my shoe. And it ain’t.