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That connection is so long... You would expect the two EU hubs to be better connected
They're still a fair distance apart. Even by car it takes about 3 hours, not accounting for bad traffic, so 3 hours by train isn't that bad.
Cars are usually slower than high-speed trains. There was a discussion a while ago with a high-speed train connection between both:
https://delano.lu/article/delano_faster-lux-brussels-train-not-2028
Due to the higher flexibility of the car, the train needs to have a clear advantage (here, the time) to be chosen by passengers, especially with the quite high price for a return trip (similar to the issue of trains competing with planes)
Yeah but the article isn't about high speed trains. It's about the regular inter city trains.
I would love proper high speed trains like in asia but with our current political will and economic managment i doubt anyone is even considering such.
I honestly don't think there's much of a market for high speed trains between Brussels and a small boring provincial city of merely 115.000 people.
Thats fair, i just look at my comute time and wish it was the future already.
Indeed, my comment about the connection being long was a tangential comment
Luxembourg isn't a hub, the train connections between Luxembourg and France, Germany aren't good either
I said "EU hub" as hub for the EU institutions, which are mostly located in both cities