PennBoy: Poland doesn't have the money for it yet. Like the guys said above if the rest of the rail system wasn't neglected so much during commie and post commie times the money would have been there to be spent on this project. It would have been nice thought :-)
What's crucial is that they don't abandon the work to prepare the route - if everything is completed as it's planned to be, minus the trains/tracks - then it will be a formality to build the line in the future. As far as I know - all existing work should go ahead, so no issue there.
Grzegorz_: Where Gerries would built a highway, decent express road will be enough
Actually, Polish expressways aren't worse than German highways. I was driving on the German A12 yesterday - it's worse than your average S-class road in Poland.
Grzegorz_: Delphi gets angry because he would like to asap travel to Warsaw at +300km/h, so he can meet there Harry and they can spend the evening convincing each other how super duper upper class expats they are, laughing at "Poland B peasants", who can't afford TGV, to make themselves feel better, I am rather more focused on long-term progress of this country, pouring more concrete into the ground might be needed in some cases but It shouldn't be the main element of the strategy, we should rather focuse on trully informatio era concepts.
300km/h would be enough - it would mean 90 minute (at most) connections to Warsaw, which would radically change things in terms of transportation. The train still wins for now, but when the A2 is complete - the train will lose out massively to the car.
And yes, we laugh at those peasants, because they had exactly the same opportunity as we had. And they blew it.
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