More relevant stats are in the tables on this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_rail_usag...
While the UK has ~1700 million passengers per year traveling by rail, Romania has 61 million.
While the UK has ~1700 million passengers per year traveling by rail, Romania has 61 million.
I don’t live in the EU, but how does public infrastructure funding work? Are there no funds to invest in infrastructure?
It seems like trading partners would benefit a lot from a more connected Romania.
What people seem to remember is who cut the ribbon, so it's a bit of a risk for a party that has a 4 year mandate to build something and not finish it during their term as nobody will remember that they started a project.
For the last two or so years the political alliance in charge of things has been mostly focusing on making the laws more lax as most of them have legal problems, instead of focusing on the peoples' problems. We get what we deserve, since you never really do see a smart people ruled by idiots.
Edit: It’s 80 billion passenger kilometres per year which is a respectable 3+ kilometres per person per day.
From the link: « The London Underground ("The Tube") had an additional 1.34 billion passengers in 2015-16 »
Anyway, 80 billion passenger kilometres, per year is very good relative to 327.1 billion miles driven.