Wasn’t the UK govt also complaining about their tax money going into funding EU projects like this?
Ohh no how can they not include me in their plan after i burn the bridges with them
Dude, who cares about Australia n Britain being left out?.. They left my mighty 'Merica out of the picture! 😔🖼️ SMH
Now departing Fuck Around; next stop, Find Out!
New maps for Ticket to Ride just dropped
What’s truly bullshit about this map is Hungary. To get anywhere, you have to go through Budapest and it’s been like this since the last 150 years, when it comes to rail. Even though it has at least seven metropolitan areas outside of Pest county with population above 100k… NOPE! You have to go through two of the three major railway stations of Budapest.
What’s worse is say you are a local to Hungary and you live east of the Danube. You want to visit Lake Balaton in the west. You have to take the train to Budapest. You then transfer by Metró to the other railway station. And then take another train to the lake. Three fares and two transfers, which might be fine as an individual but adds up in costs and stress if you are with family or have accessibility needs. And by accessibility needs I’m just talking about being elderly (who mostly travel free or at a very reduced rate) or a stroller.
France is no different, going anywhere by TGV ? You’d best like going via Paris
To the idiot half who voted Brexit: fuck off.
To the other half who voted against it: sorry guys.
Pfft, they’re lucky the French don’t bomb their end of the chunnel.
I imagine sad, regretful brits dining/vacationing are a boon to the economy.
The Trans-European Transport Project has been ongoing since the '90s.
And since I was curious, here are the new guidelines adopted last week. Nothing revolutionary but an evolution in the right direction. I do find it personally interesting that the TEN-T apparently did not previously formally take into account military mobility…
TETP is just a nefarious scheme to dictate glorious typography to member states. Seriously that thing is good: Ridiculously legible and specifically so in “big font at long distances” situations, meanwhile both friendly and authoritative – exactly the kind of thing you want when asking for the way. No “yeah let me think where was that intersection” or “can’t you find your own way” but “Of course! Go straight ahead, first to the left, then the second right”.
Now if the EU would get around to telling member states that they should learn from each other in overall traffic and urban design, and follow the best practices that they can find anywhere. Which is diplomatic language for “Do as the Dutch do”.
There is this saying ‘people are not islands’ to mean people are interconnected with each other. The literal sense being applied by the last decade and by extension the last semicentennial is weird. The EU is a federation and any country can leave, but I still think Brexit was a mistake.
Should add a few more lines to Switzerland. We do play nice with EU.
But Switzerland has line???
Switzerland is part of the single market, I’d guess they’re paying the EU to be part of TEN-T. The UK is trying to have as little association with the EU as possible.
Switzerland participates in Schengen and the european free trade association while not being an EU member state. The UK doesn’t do any of those things.
Are those tunnels to ireland?
Under the water?
Are people not sketched out by that? That sounds terrifying
“Daylight 2: Erin Go Bragh”
Are you spooked by La Manche tunnel? It exists.
I get it, and lol or whatever, but Ireland is getting two ferries(?) from entirety of the mainland, and the UK is still connected via the tunnel which looks to be a major link-hub for the new system. I guess if it weren’t for Brexit there might have been an Edinburgh-Amsterdam or -Brussels link, but it’s not like Aberdeen or New Castle was going to get any love.
I believe we have two ferries going from east Scotland to Amsterdam and Bruges (or somewhere nearby) starting shortly. We also have Fred Olsen cruises from Scottish ports now too.
Not defending brexit before I get pitchforked but we aren’t exactly cut off…
Those scheming betrayers also left Australia out of the transport plan for EU members.
How much lead paint do you need to eat to see the loaded language in these headlines and think “yeah - seems legit.”
