“ SBB the goes West”, it was said yesterday on Radio SRF. The SBB plan, namely, to 2020, to improve their Connections to Italy, Germany and of course France. Even faster, you can take in the future to Paris, flit. Currently, just 4 hours and 3 minutes from Zürich HB is 4 hours 28 minutes, from Bern, from there currently without having to Change trains. However, the changes bring, especially for our capital city at a disadvantage – the direct train to Paris, it is no more, and because construction sites will extend the arrival, in the meantime, even a half-hour. We’ve convened a round table with representatives of the affected cantons of Bern, Solothurn, Basel-Landschaft and Basel-Stadt. Of course it is great that the world is moving the metropolis closer, and all at once should benefit, and that you talk with those who feel left behind,.
However, as it would be with a round table for train travel in the East, “SBB goes East”? Take, for example, the route Bern–Belgrade. For the approximately 1400 kilometres in the Paris of the Balkans, the car is not needed expects 22 hours and 10 minutes of delays at border crossings, unexpected baggage checks, and construction sites. You would put the route in the current quality of the Bern–Paris and back, you would have approximately half as long. Because this journey is about 600 kilometres long. According to expected – with rounded data, so the train needed per 100 kilometres in 45 minutes. The journey from Berne to Belgrade, the train per 100 km, takes 95 minutes.
of Course, it is unrealistic, soon to be turbo to go fast trains to Siberia – and, imagine: “next Stop, Nizhnevartovsk”, in just seven hours in the Tundra – great. No, we don’t want to go. But tourism in the Balkans is, in the Northern part of Eastern Europe, it is booming in a long time. Why not ease the way to more than a half-hour? A gigantic round table would be necessary. The might have the consequence that it would not be worth the rubber Slippers for the up and down to assemble in the corridor of the wagon. You’ve hardly had a Finch that would be already in Paris, uh, Belgrade, brandy with the Couchette neighbors, you would not have to drink, and time to smoke is hidden on the toilet, remains. That would be a great shame.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 08.05.2019, 18:36 PM
