delphiandomine 86 | 17823
9 Oct 2011 / #31
They stole money that was supposed to be earmarked for the rails and used it to fill in the budget gap for roads while the trains run with half the cars they need.
Actually, the cars not running are solely to do with inept PKP Intercity management, nothing to do with the Government. It might be in State hands, but it's run as a "hands off" company, unlike Przewozy Regionalne.
yes for the money they are spending to build 3 new high speed rail lines that go 250kph they could spend the money to get a multitude more tracks up to 150 or even 100kph. In a country where many regional trains travel at 40kph the hsr is 2 steps too far.
But at the same time, there's a desperate need to get Wroclaw-Warsaw down to less than the 5.5 hours that it takes at the minute. Building the Y line will really open up things - look at how the TGV really helped France get away from the plane. Or look at how the Thalys has really changed things - or even the opening of HSL Zuid has destroyed the air market between Amsterdam and Paris.
wants to or already many step have been taken in order to prepare the company to be privatized? I did a lil research on the net and I came to conclusion that it is just a matter of time and they have been accepting bids since May 2011, so it is not news anymore.
PiS were preparing for it just as much as PO have been. Don't let people fool you into thinking otherwise.
PKP Cargo is going to make 200 milliom net profit this year and is potentially much more profitable company. I see no point in giving it to German or Russian government.
PKP Cargo was also losing an exceptional amount of money not so long ago, and could easily go back there.
Definately. There must be very strong "lobbing" behind the whole high speed nonsense.
Of course there is - people like me would like to be in Warsaw in less than 2 hours without having to fly. I'd quite like to be able to jump on a train and be in Lodz in an hour and Warsaw in 2 - maximum. With a 250km/h line speed - we should see Warsaw-Poznan/Wroclaw being less than 90 minutes, which will be a massive improvement.
What Poland needs is to get the present network up to date.
It's getting there, but it's really not helped by the ridiculously low fares. How can it be economic to charge 7zl for a 30km run, when the buses are charging 9-10zl?
What matters is getting ordinary Polish people from A to B in a reasonable time. 8 hours from Warsaw to Gdynia is not the good thing to do :)
Oh, this, I agree - and they're getting there.