ALLRAIL – Because competition matters!
Why competition matters?
„Because challenge and competition make us better. If our businesses aren’t challenged, if they don’t have to compete, then they don’t have any reason to work to serve people better. Competition is the motor that drives businesses to do better for consumers. To cut prices. To offer more choice. To produce innovative products.“
Margarethe Vestager, European Commissioner for Competition, in a speech at the
American Enterprise Institute in Washington on September 18, 2017
Taken from: How competition can build better market
Ms. Vestagers quote concisely sums up why competition matters. The rail sector in the EU is currently still far from being as competitive as other industries.
ALLRAIL aims to work closely with the EU Institutions, the European Union Rail Agency and Regulators to support the full establishment of a competitive Single European Railway Area.
Heute mit dem Premiumprodukt des Wettbewerbers unterwegs, weil auf dieser Strecke Richtung Süden der #FlixTrain (noch) nicht fahren darf. Zumindest hängt ein Plakat der Grünen Fernreise-Alternative am Bahnhof. Das Revier im Zug @DB_Bahn habe ich dennoch schon markiert 😉
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Stockholm Central Station:
regardless whether upstairs or downstairs, the historical operator is market dominant when it comes to rail ticket sales
(and it refuses to give exposure to new entrant operators that it perceives to be a competitive threat)
@EU_Competition
Nice photos of @Transdev's Snälltåget train,
which offers some competition to long distance rail passengers in Sweden:
I also took some pictures, because I do know that details are important for traingeeks 😉 it’s number 193 255 3