[Biketour] Please help with e-mail action about Croatian Railways cross-border service cuts!
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Alice O'Rourke
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From: Pippa Gallop <pippa....@bankwatch.org>
Date: Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:36 PM
Subject: Please help with e-mail action about Croatian Railways cross-border service cuts!
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From: Pippa Gallop <pippa....@bankwatch.org>
Date: Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:36 PM
Subject: Please help with e-mail action about Croatian Railways cross-border service cuts!
To: in...@ecotopiabiketour.net
Hi there,
Hope you all got home safely from Venice.
Unfortunately Croatian Railways has announced that it is planned to cut 44 out of 56 cross-border daily rail services in December this year. Considering that this will make travel for cyclists taking their bikes around with public transport extra difficult.
So I was wondering if you could please spread this e-mail action over the biketour mailing lists.
Many thanks!
Pippa
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JOIN online action: Croatian Railways - reconsider cross-border cuts plans!
Dear Friends,
Every year, thousands of people come from other European countries to Croatia's beautiful coast for holidays by train or use the train to visit their relatives and friends. But as of December this year, cross-border train travel to and from Croatia is about to get a whole lot more difficult: Croatian Railways has announced http://www.hznet.hr/medunarodni-prijevoz that it is to cut 44 out of 56 daily international services, and even two of the remaining ones would run in summer only.
http://www.change.org/petitions/croatian-railways-reconsider-planned-cuts-to-international-passenger-rail-services
Rail is the most environmentally acceptable mode of long-distance transport, with relatively low pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. In Europe many people also consider it a pleasant and comfortable way to travel. It is therefore not surprising that the European Union – which Croatia is joining next year – has a transport policy stipulating that by 2050 most medium-distance passenger travel should be by rail. It is ironic that, at a time when Croatia is joining the EU, its rail policy is going in the other direction.
This makes rail travel drastically more inconvenient. It also makes ordinary people pay for mistakes that have been made by Croatian Railways and the Croatian government. For years the Croatian government has put many more resources into motorway construction than into investing in rail, and the result is that many people use cars on routes where they could go by train. Likewise Croatian Railways has for too long avoided making improvements in service and efficiency, and has failed to sufficiently advertise its services.
Join us in calling on Croatian Railways and the Croatian Government to reconsider their decision to cut cross-border rail services. And don't forget to add a comment: Do you come to Croatia by rail on holiday? Or have you been planning to? Do you regularly visit friends and relatives in neighbouring countries by train? Are you maybe a cyclist who likes to travel some of the route by rail and for whom buses are not a viable alternative?
http://www.change.org/petitions/croatian-railways-reconsider-planned-cuts-to-international-passenger-rail-services
Many thanks!
Pippa Gallop, World Carfree Network
Hope you all got home safely from Venice.
Unfortunately Croatian Railways has announced that it is planned to cut 44 out of 56 cross-border daily rail services in December this year. Considering that this will make travel for cyclists taking their bikes around with public transport extra difficult.
So I was wondering if you could please spread this e-mail action over the biketour mailing lists.
Many thanks!
Pippa
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JOIN online action: Croatian Railways - reconsider cross-border cuts plans!
Dear Friends,
Every year, thousands of people come from other European countries to Croatia's beautiful coast for holidays by train or use the train to visit their relatives and friends. But as of December this year, cross-border train travel to and from Croatia is about to get a whole lot more difficult: Croatian Railways has announced http://www.hznet.hr/medunarodni-prijevoz that it is to cut 44 out of 56 daily international services, and even two of the remaining ones would run in summer only.
http://www.change.org/petitions/croatian-railways-reconsider-planned-cuts-to-international-passenger-rail-services
Rail is the most environmentally acceptable mode of long-distance transport, with relatively low pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. In Europe many people also consider it a pleasant and comfortable way to travel. It is therefore not surprising that the European Union – which Croatia is joining next year – has a transport policy stipulating that by 2050 most medium-distance passenger travel should be by rail. It is ironic that, at a time when Croatia is joining the EU, its rail policy is going in the other direction.
This makes rail travel drastically more inconvenient. It also makes ordinary people pay for mistakes that have been made by Croatian Railways and the Croatian government. For years the Croatian government has put many more resources into motorway construction than into investing in rail, and the result is that many people use cars on routes where they could go by train. Likewise Croatian Railways has for too long avoided making improvements in service and efficiency, and has failed to sufficiently advertise its services.
Join us in calling on Croatian Railways and the Croatian Government to reconsider their decision to cut cross-border rail services. And don't forget to add a comment: Do you come to Croatia by rail on holiday? Or have you been planning to? Do you regularly visit friends and relatives in neighbouring countries by train? Are you maybe a cyclist who likes to travel some of the route by rail and for whom buses are not a viable alternative?
http://www.change.org/petitions/croatian-railways-reconsider-planned-cuts-to-international-passenger-rail-services
Many thanks!
Pippa Gallop, World Carfree Network
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