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Hahaha. Don't worry I appreciate it. That is very funny about Switzerland!
Here in Spain they are finally opening high-speed rail to some northern cities along the Atlantic coast. However, because the line had to cross the Cantabrian Mountains, they needed to construct a tunnel, one of thr largest in the world in fact. This was supposed to be finished in 2002, but because this is Spain it is finally opening 21 years later in 2023 ๐
In Madrid our commuter trains are horrible. But that's just because of the current conservative government. They cut back on the number of trains per hour and then claim public transport doesn't work and that it needs to be privatized. Horrible.
The germans are fucking up everything train related (maybe slightly exaggerated. But only slightly). The whole Brenner project involving this huge tunnel and involving Italy, Austria and Germany. Italy and Austria are nearly finished on their side and Germany hasn't even started construction yet (at least in the bigger sense of the project).