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Originally Posted by AzTeK
Doesn't it make you proud to see that such a supposedly advanced and sophisticated nation as Austria has such a dense high speed rail network?  Seriously, didn't we want to move freight traffic from the road to the rail like 10 years ago? |
I thought in the year 2000 we will all have personal space ships.
Ehm anyway, I actually follow the development of the Austrian rail network. No need to say its a rather depressing hobby
The new track between St. Pölten and Wien Hauptbahnhof will be very cool however. Cutting travel times from 3/4 hour to 23 minutes or so. Imagine when you could reach the pedestrian zone in St. Pölten faster than the Viennese Volksoper from the pedestrian zone in Favoriten. Thats how it will be in few years from now, I think from 2012 onwards.
Another great and really really extremely overdue project is the modernisation of the main railway station in St. Pölten. It was the single Austrian station that could compete with the Südbahnhof for the worst station in Austria, and its my opinion that the Südbahnhof only one the contests regularely because it affected a larger amount of people.