Your tourism industry is *not* sustainable if no one can get to your country in a sustainable way
Looking at you Croatia, Norway, Portugal in particular
Your tourism industry is *not* sustainable if no one can get to your country in a sustainable way
Looking at you Croatia, Norway, Portugal in particular
@marcusjenkins @jon The Portuguese government has asked the Spanish to reinstate the Sud Express on several occasions, and offered to put up money, and they keep saying no.
Apparently the Spanish are only interested in high speed rail. Of course, the Iberian peninsula having a different track gauge to the rest of the continent for its existing lines makes the development of long distance high speed rail … challenging.
@goatsarah @jon I would absolutely *love* to be able to travel corner-to-corner, coast-to-coast on the Iberian peninsula by sleeper train. Perhaps this will come back, one day. For example, get on a train in Alicante or Murcia at 10pm after an early supper and wake up in Galicia or Lisbon 👌…
RENFE axed all the sleeper trains.
Public services should not be run according to how much shareholder value they can generate.
@jon @toxy And even when ferries do exist, well, riddle me this.
The capital value of a RORO ferry and a Boeing 737-Max8200 can’t be that different.
The operating costs can’t be that different. Ferries are big and have big engines, but maintaining state of the art high bypass turbofans is not cheap.
So why does it cost 20 quid off peak to fly FAO-STN and a THOUSAND quid to travel by ferry from Santander to a Portsmouth?
Ok, there’s the cabin, but lots of places do overnight hotel rooms for a lot less than that.
I can only think that this is economy of scale.
@toxy Indeed. Totally. At least Sweden to Germany is semi possible. But I agree with you.
@jon Tell me about it. I live in Central Sweden, my Mum in the UK is scared of flying and I want to minimise my air travel but there are no ferries between Scandinavia and Britain.
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