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Number of intercity trains between Belgium and the Netherlands to be doubled (and sped up) by 2025 (www.vrt.be)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

As someone who has lived in Belgium.... Doubt this will be a reality considering "recent" politics concerning public transport

[+] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That connection is so long... You would expect the two EU hubs to be better connected

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah but the article isn't about high speed trains. It's about the regular inter city trains.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thats fair, i just look at my comute time and wish it was the future already.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Indeed, my comment about the connection being long was a tangential comment

[–] freebee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Luxembourg isn't a hub, the train connections between Luxembourg and France, Germany aren't good either

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I said "EU hub" as hub for the EU institutions, which are mostly located in both cities

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Goed nieuws

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Nu moeten ze het nog waar maken haha.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Can't wait to get instantly un-excited again after seeing the ticket prices.