The Sleeper Train Is Not Nostalgia. It Is Infrastructure.
Governments subsidize airports without blinking. They should think the same way about beds on rails.
Governments subsidize airports without blinking. They should think the same way about beds on rails.
Night routes now link Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Zurich and Rome, and most of them sell out weeks ahead. The carriages are the bottleneck.

Not every public service needs to be optimized. Some of them need to be kept.
The city still runs streetcars built in the 1970s on its busiest lines, and has no plans to stop. Riders would not have it any other way.
