Each carriage has appx 40 rows with 4 seats each. It will get only worse if TB gets his well deserved place in EU. Hope he will take GB with him to sort out EU treasury.

savo, london, uk

Your article doesn't make sense : how can 377 officials travel in three carriages ? In view of the distance I presume you mean a high speed train with ten carriages (Strasburg is on a high-speed line, like Brussels). Surely Europe has committed worse crimes than this!

poll, London,

Another step closer to the collapse of the EU. Eurocrats are already disconnected from everyday problems. They perceive they have the 'power' to waste taxpayers' money. If they ban ordinary citizens from boarding the train, retaliation from people is unavoidable. Environ. concerns are cheap excuses!

Somebody Whocares, Torino, Italy

What complete waste of our billions upon billions of hard-earned money! D Case, I'm with you on that.

WA, England,

Could we see some divine intervention and a clear message from above? Fingers crossed.

D Case, Newquay,

Our elected members of Parliament can hardly be surprised that people are becoming disillusioned with politics. It is time to put an end to the gravy train at home and in Brussels(or Strasbourg). Stop the hypocrisy. With elections coming up get rid of the cheaters, all of them.

peterfieldman, paris, france

The decision to base the Parliament in that city was reached by "the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States" at the European Council meeting in December 1992 Edinburgh - if they did boycott, they'd be accused of ignoring decisions made nationally, a further outrage!

Rob, Swindon,

This gravy train facillity for MEPs is very irresponsible use of tax payers' money.It might be a better idea to hold alternate sessions of the European Parliament in Brussels and in Strasbourg, so that the MPs can turn out more work.

Lakshmana Rao Dhulipala, Kakinada, India

If even the MEPs think it's a waste of money, why do they go? I'll vote for any MEP who promises to boycott Strasbourg.

Andrew Gallagher, Galway,

MEPs from nearly every EU country -- except France -- object HEAVILY to the Strasbough "waste of time and money". If the EU was really democratic, this idiotic practice would have been dealt with years ago. This is the one issue that can unite MEPs from England, Finland, Bulgaria and Portugal alike.

mel, london,

I dunno, but there are a lot of very angry frenchmen running about france at the moment looking to get thier point across about the rising costs in thier gravey-train economy.

I'm sure some of them would be only to happy to oblige.

the sooner they move the UN HQ to Strasburg the better.

simon, torquay, uk

I remember when members of parliament, any parliament, pledged to work for the benefit of the folk that elected them. Now the electorate are working to provide tax money for the members of various parliaments. Politicians have been riding the gravy train for decades, so what's new?

Les Mitchell, Crewkerne,, England

Our government needs to address the obscene waste involved in the Strasbourg circus. Are a few judicious train wrecks being planned?

Ray Warren, Dartmouth,