Spain will introduce free train travel

Re:Spain will introduce free train travel by distances on Saturday July 23, 2022 @01:07PM (#32205241)

While the German train system can definitely improve, it's hard to come up with many countries that actually have a better service. France and Japan, maybe Spain? I don't know about the Netherlands and Nordics? It's still too rare to have such an extensive network.

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Re:Spain will introduce free train travel by GeckoEidechse on Saturday July 23, 2022 @02:21PM (#32206018)

Austria and Switzerland definitely have better train service than Germany. In fact the Austrian federal railways (ÖBB) even bought up the majority of DB's night train routes after DB considered decommissioning them ^^

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Re:Spain will introduce free train travel by rsynnott on Saturday July 23, 2022 @02:06PM (#32205855)

It's all relative, I think. I've met Americans living in Ireland who were amazed by how good Dublin's public transport was. "Good" is not a description that anyone in Dublin, or anyone in Europe, would use for Dublin's public transport.

I've always thought that German transport was generally excellent when I'm over there, but then I'm from Dublin :)

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Re:Spain will introduce free train travel by rbanffy on Saturday July 23, 2022 @02:15PM (#32205959)

> "Good" is not a description that anyone in Dublin, or anyone in Europe, would use for Dublin's public transport.

Light rail in Dublin is quite good, but coverage isn’t great. I used DART a few times, and it wasn’t a nice experience - long waits and less than ideal trains. I traveled by rail between Dublin and Cork, however, and it was quite good - modern and comfortable, and relatively fast (Ireland is small and fast rail feels like overkill)

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Re:Spain will introduce free train travel by rsynnott on Saturday July 23, 2022 @02:29PM (#32206094)

> Ireland is small and fast rail feels like overkill

Not sure I'd say that; a modern TVG/ICE-type service could do Dublin to Cork in less than an hour, vs 2.5 hours for the current service. That would be a game changer.

There are vague plans for such a service, and more solid plans for upgrading to 200km/h (the trains already support this but the line would need upgrading).

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Re:Spain will introduce free train travel by rbanffy on Saturday July 23, 2022 @04:56PM (#32207474)

It’d certainly remove some pressure on Dublin housing.

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Re:Spain will introduce free train travel by spaniard89277 on Saturday July 23, 2022 @02:04PM (#32205839)

The german system is ok. Germans have reasons to complain but isn't terrible.

What germany does horribly is ISP infra. It just sucks ass.

Also, some gas and electricity pipes running south wouldn't hurt, but it's too late...

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Re:Spain will introduce free train travel by atlasunshrugged on Saturday July 23, 2022 @05:58PM (#32207965)

Well, there will be more LNG terminals at the ports soon I would guess, but it does seem like there is a huge hesitancy to build more gas infrastructure that would diversify away from Russia because it isn't green

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Re:Spain will introduce free train travel by stop50 on Saturday July 23, 2022 @06:38PM (#32208262)

Does someone in another country made a song about the bad public transport? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXjhszy2f9w

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