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From a Danish perspective I don't really see any positive long, or short, term gains from the Fehmarn tunnel, but I also live in the wrong part of the country.
by mrweasel 5mo ago
From a Danish perspective I don't really see any positive long, or short, term gains from the Fehmarn tunnel, but I also live in the wrong part of the country.
This is a tunnel for Sweden, Norway and Copenhagen, it's moving the center of everything in Denmark closer and closer to the center of Copenhagen, completely disconnecting the rest of the country. A few days ago a new train start running Copenhagen to Oslo, a seven hour trip. That's the same time it takes me to get to Copenhagen by train within Denmark. Everyone is happy that you can "Get on the train and just pop to Hamburg, Berlin or Prag", but you can't, only if you happen to live in a few select spots does that work. It's a multi-day journey with a layover within the country if I want to leave by rail.
Internationally this is a great project, internally in Denmark, it's going to make international train travel worse for the majority of the country.
- Symbiote 5mo agoFor a 7 hour journey to Copenhagen you must be living in Skagen. > completely disconnecting the rest of the country If there's some secret plan to demolish the bridges to Fyn and rip up the roads and railway tracks on Jutland do inform us. Otherwise, the Århus to Hamburg train will continue to exist. > It's a multi-day journey with a layover within the country if I want to leave by rail. No, it isn't.
- robin_reala 5mo agoSkagen to Flensburg is 7 hours? It’s a painful number of connections, sure, but hardly multi-day. Even going on to Hamburg only adds another couple of hours onto the journey.