As someone who lives in Antwerp and works fully remote , but sometimes needs to go to the office in The Hague, this is great news!
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That connection is so long… You would expect the two EU hubs to be better connected
They’re still a fair distance apart. Even by car it takes about 3 hours, not accounting for bad traffic, so 3 hours by train isn’t that bad.
Cars are usually slower than high-speed trains. There was a discussion a while ago with a high-speed train connection between both:
Luxembourg and Belgium in 2016 signed a letter of intent, pledging to reduce travel time between the two capitals by around an hour to 2 hours and 7 minutes by 2023, but this target was quietly abandoned. Last year, Belgium said the works would take at least another five years to complete. The projected date has now been pushed back even further to 2028.
Works on the line are complicated, Gilkinet said, especially as numerous curves need to be straightened to allow trains to pick up more speed. The trip currently takes around 3 hours and 15 minutes.
https://delano.lu/article/delano_faster-lux-brussels-train-not-2028
Due to the higher flexibility of the car, the train needs to have a clear advantage (here, the time) to be chosen by passengers, especially with the quite high price for a return trip (similar to the issue of trains competing with planes)
Yeah but the article isn’t about high speed trains. It’s about the regular inter city trains.
I would love proper high speed trains like in asia but with our current political will and economic managment i doubt anyone is even considering such.
I honestly don’t think there’s much of a market for high speed trains between Brussels and a small boring provincial city of merely 115.000 people.
Thats fair, i just look at my comute time and wish it was the future already.
Indeed, my comment about the connection being long was a tangential comment
Luxembourg isn’t a hub, the train connections between Luxembourg and France, Germany aren’t good either
I said “EU hub” as hub for the EU institutions, which are mostly located in both cities
As someone who has lived in Belgium… Doubt this will be a reality considering “recent” politics concerning public transport
Can’t wait to get instantly un-excited again after seeing the ticket prices.
Goed nieuws
Nu moeten ze het nog waar maken haha.
