There was no question in my comment. The answer to your question is in my comment. It really isn’t that hard to understand.
Finland doesn’t have much of a rail network, and the only international connection over land used to be to St Petersburg. If Estonia & Sweden & the big ferry companies are on board it would be nice to change gauge evtl., to have freight waggons come across the ferries.
But I don’t like that our practically failed government uses this to raise its prestige while every statistic shows that their stupid austerity measures a) save way too little money and b) fuck up the country and its people.
So when our far-right anti-social government says “now is the right time for Finland to start work on changing the gauge” I disagree.
There was no question in my comment. The answer to your question is in my comment. It really isn’t that hard to understand.
Finland doesn’t have much of a rail network, and the only international connection over land used to be to St Petersburg. If Estonia & Sweden & the big ferry companies are on board it would be nice to change gauge evtl., to have freight waggons come across the ferries.
But I don’t like that our practically failed government uses this to raise its prestige while every statistic shows that their stupid austerity measures a) save way too little money and b) fuck up the country and its people.
So when our far-right anti-social government says “now is the right time for Finland to start work on changing the gauge” I disagree.
There is also a rail connection with Sweden, which use standard gauge.
Anyway the work would start 2030 at the earliest. So this is an announcment of creating plans to do it, which is cheap.