“Giant investment in rail is not enough”
“the Swedish people want to take the train.”
“Aftonbladet’s leader board is the independent social democrat.”
“I travel a lot train, both as commuters and in the workplace. So much that SJ has upgraded me to the highest level in its scoring system. It means that I get a free cup of coffee, if there is now a bistro or a restaurant on the train.”
“It also means that I have heard almost all of the explanations are to the delays and cancellations of trains. I have seen how the staff tried to get frozen pantograph to make contact with the wire, I have been in service unnaturally slowly on the slippery tracks and the damaged rails. I have been waiting on the train, therefore, that the contact wires torn down, and that carriages have been broken. “
“There has been a lack of staff, and on the locomotive.”
“once had the whole train happened to go away on rangerbangården.nSå where it would be able to continue. I have spent hours on the ersättningsbussar and rallied fellow passengers to get the taxi as the train does not go.”
“the Swedish transport administration’s statistics for October says that 77 954 of a total of 89 716 scheduled trains arrived at their destination in time. It is a few percent and a few thousand train – worse than the month before, partly because the two meetings at the main Western line was destroyed in a fire. So sensitive is the system.”
“the Trains are heavier and more than ever. In 25 years the passenger traffic on the railway nearly doubled.”
“Christmas and new year holidays are the real days of travel for the Swedish people, and very many want to take the train to and from relatives and friends. It is not difficult to understand, not even if we could ignore the environmental arguments. This time of year is the Swedish road network nothing for the faint hearted or semesterchaufförer. It is not the drifting snow and glashalt so you have to reckon with that it is nedmörkt and fully with the modd on the entire front window.”
“the Train – a better alternative”
“Then appears the train as a better option. Probably it is, therefore, SJ back in november, was forced to warn that the tickets to the most popular departures in the weekends began to take end. Then julstressiga railroads with gifts and too much luggage can develop into a veritable trial of family unity is another thing. The point is much simpler than that. The Swedish people to travel by train, and we would like to go even more trains.”
“Just from the Stockholm Central station run every weekday, hundreds of long – distance or regional trains. So many more, it is not possible to penetrate, in all cases, not when people want to travel. It remains only to pack together the passengers and fill the seats.”
“Sweden needs huge efforts on our rail network. Not primarily for the SJ and other operators shall pass the rush around the holidays, but for everyday life and production work. When it is possible to commute by train growing labour market regions. Employers gain greater chance to find the right skills, and employees with greater opportunities to find the right job.”
“Can not continue to fly.”
“we Want to avoid irreversible climate catastrophe, we will not be able to fly the way we do in the day, and the trips between the cities of Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö would be able to be done with the train on the only railroad there and allow enough speed.”
“in Addition, we have the freight. For many Swedish companies is the outdated railroad one of the things that stand in the way of business.”
“In summer, when the government presented the national plan for infrastructure over the next ten years there was talk about the biggest järnvägssatsningen in the modern era. All in all, it should be invested 700 billion in roads and railways, 100 billion more than in the last plan. And yet, when the Finnish transport agency in fall told me how the construction of the höghastighetsbanorna to go to was forced to admit that the money is not enough to really express rail on the entire route.”
“If we as a nation should be able to meet the challenges required even greater investment. When Sweden finally gets a government should actually bets on the entire rail network to stand really high on the agenda.”
