This is to make environmentally friendly travel even easier!
People who travel through Europe travels, who often uses the diverse flight offer, with which one is within the shortest time at the destination. However, this is not environmentally friendly. Travelling by train is much better for the climate, but also takes more time. But a new high-speed rail line could soon change that. In planning is a connection between Vienna and Berlin, which train passengers can reach in five hours. from A to B.
However: it could still be quite a while before travelling between the cities is that easy...
Currently, it takes about nine hours to travel from Vienna to Berlin by train in a sustainable way. A duration that is simply too long for many travellers, who therefore prefer to take a flight. But Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic are now planning to expand the route between Vienna and Berlin. The connection via Dresden and Prague is to be part of a European network of new rail links that will also include night trains, according to German CSU politician Andreas Scheuer. This should make it possible in future to get from the major Austrian city to the German metropolis in just five hours.
The planned line is part of the so-called "Trans-Europ-Express TEE 2.0" concept, which envisages the expansion of high-speed rail lines between major European cities. This is also intended to ensure that the climate targets set by the respective countries are achieved better and faster.
But it will be some time before the five-hour train connection between the two metropolises can actually be used. The line is not expected to be completed until the 2030s. According to experts, this is why the project would take so much time, as a tunnel would first have to be built through the Ore Mountains.
