In a post on SvD's debate page, Sebastian Stichel, Evert Andersson and Mats Berg address, among other things, the image of the planned high-speed railways as a big city project. "Three-quarters of the journeys are estimated to take place to and / or from one of the 14 intermediate stations," they write, citing examples such that the travel time Jönköping-Lund is expected to decrease from 2.5 hours to one hour.

Oppose to unprofitable

The trio, who are professors in railway technology, for example, also object to the argument that the new tracks would be unprofitable. “At KTH, we have thoroughly investigated this,” they write, explaining, among other things, that travel forecasts underestimate how many travelers the trains will take from cars and flights.

The safety

"Furthermore, it is 20-30 times safer to go by train than by car," they write, pointing out that Swedish road traffic still harvests hundreds of lives a year.

The government's plans on the fast lines between cities in southern Sweden have recently been met by headwinds. Several of the bourgeois parties, which as late as 2014 launched the plans under the epithet "Sverigebygget", reject the project as too expensive.