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🚆 One journey. One ticket. Full rights.
We’re making cross-border train journeys simpler:
🎫 One booking across rail operators
Find, compare and book trains from different operators in one transaction.
🛡️ Full passenger rights for the whole journey
If you miss a connection on a single ticket, you’ll get assistance, including rerouting, reimbursement and compensation.
📲 Clearer pricing info
Travel options shown fairly and clearly, so you can easily compare and choose.
@EUCommission Very cool! But Lisbon to Vienna? We don't even have Lisbon to Madrid, which I really hope we get soon!
@EUCommission I hope SBB is included!
@EUCommission I'll believe it after @jon give it a try 😁
@EUCommission
So, when can I book my railway ticket e.g. from Germany to Bari?
@EUCommission THX It's about time!
@EUCommission
Yes please! Railway is the way 🚄🛤️
@EUCommission yes, yes, yes! More trains, more sustainable public transport! This is great news indeed.
@EUCommission That sounds awesome! Will it only apply to EU members, or will we be able to take advantage of it for journeys starting from the UK too?
@EUCommission Yes please! Let's make public transport more convenient and move people more efficiently at lower ecological costs.
@EUCommission
Wow that sounds great. Now kick Germany ass for their awful train network and service please.
@EUCommission my worst experience with cross border travel are required reservations and too rare connections (and stupid air travel like rules).
A flexible connection is much more important than a few Euros compensation for a missed connection in a tiny border town without accommodations available.
Competition will not fix anything without necessary capacity and frequency. Do not just apply aviation style ideas to train travel!
@EUCommission great to see this happening, I love trains! 💕
@EUCommission I do hope that for Lisbon to Vienna (as in the image) you coordinate this with SBB.ch, I am sure they would love to be part of that. Godspeed!
@EUCommission I love it! Could we please expand this to all public transport so there's one interoperable ticketing system for the whole Union?!
It's a step in the right direction, but unfortunately this doesn't deliver for passengers. Rights should not be contingent on how and where tickets are purchased. Under your proposal:
☛ Not all journeys will be available with rights.
☛ Journeys that can be made with rights will come with extra hassle and a price premium.
☛ Passengers will lose flexibility and options.
There is a better way! 👇️
https://erpu.eu/en/the-eus-rights-and-ticketing-proposal-explained
@EUCommission Having had a few depressingly difficult experiences traveling from Denmark to Prague and back via Berlin, I am very much looking forward to this!
@EUCommission Until train travel is subsidised in the same manner that air travel is, the pure economy behind inter-european train travel will prevent many from doing the right thing, even if they wanted to.
🚂 🛫 🌍
For many people, the added time alone is a show stopper, but when you add VAT, energy taxes, and other strange costs on top of that, train travel isn't as easy to choose as it should be.
You're still purposefully and recklessly exempting kerosene from taxes.
You're still purposefully and recklessly tilting the playing field towards the fossil fuels and aviation industry, disadvantaging rail operators.
Your figue leaf politics don't fool anyone.
@EUCommission Great. We need to make train travel more easy.
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