It’s not easy during the difficult time in the pandemic when nobody uses public transport. This was the case for TFL (Transport For London) in London which they (TFL) & Mayor of London (Sadiq Khan) were eventually being given with the bailout (financial money rescue package) by the government in order to keep things afloat due to the effects of the Covid pandemic when nobody used the Tube (London Underground) & public buses during March 2020 lockdown except for key workers.
Now another public transport service is in financial trouble. Eurostar.
Here are the news sources:
As the person who loves trains and had travelled on Eurostar train from London St Pancras station to Paris Gare Du Nord station in August 2019, action is required for both governments of France and the UK. Also governments of the Netherlands and Belgium.
The French government have already got started to find a way to do something to save Eurostar & that they want to talk to the UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps. Which the British govt are yet to do something in order to bail out Eurostar.
Eurostar is joint European train service (cross Channel train service). It travels to 4 countries: the UK, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. It is owned 55% by the French company SNCF & that the government under David Cameron sold off Eurostar (privatised it’s stake in 2015). google.co.uk
So since it is an international high speed rail service that travels between the United Kingdom and continental Europe, number of passengers have dropped 95% in last year 2020 due to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Meaning the Eurostar train service is close to being out of business.
Unless action is taken, Eurostar services that connects the UK to mainland Europe will collapse & that there won’t anymore train coming from European destinations (Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam) to St Pancras train station. In other words, if we want to travel to 3 European nations (France, Belgium and the Netherlands) then the only mode of transport will be travelling on the plane if Eurostar is out of service.
I hope there shouldn’t really be the case. The last thing we need is to see the beloved Eurostar service going out of the business even if nobody is travelling at the moment in very difficult times. So all I can say is Save Eurostar. 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇧🇪🇳🇱🇪🇺🚄
The British government should talk to the French and see that there can be solutions to save Eurostar before it’ll eventually collapse. I hope in many years to come post Covid, I’ll be happy to travel on the Eurostar train again to Paris & other destinations in mainland Europe.
No comments:
Post a Comment