Switzerland and France: $ 600 million in common infrastructure
The company that controls high-speed rail between Switzerland and France will buy 13 new trains.
BERNE - Economic crisis? Fear of the market? The Lyria, a subsidiary of Swiss Federal Railways and SNCF French Railways, responds with a dry investment of 600 million dollars (about 600 million francs) and 2013 high-speed Swiss and French may well have 13 new TGV trains to connect the two nations.
Although it may seem to an unprejudiced Lyria trade action, it is actually mostly a careful choice policy agreed by the two governments for developing countries. The company, in fact, ensures high-speed connections between Switzerland and France, and is owned 74% by the French Railways and the remaining 26% of those in Switzerland.
Investment in rail and cargo transfer from rubber to steel, in particular, are the plans for infrastructure development that the Swiss government and parliament to bring forward a few years.
A competition for the development of trains will be made public in the upcoming weeks to come, said the director of Lyria Christian Rossi. For the new trains are expected to total expenditure of 600 million francs.
According to data from Lyria, currently the line Zurich / Basel-Paris is actively busy, that departing from Bern, however, much less. For this reason one of the links will be deleted daily in December, said Rossi. The connection, however, will rest assured for the next five years.
In general, during 2008, the TGV Lyria have carried more than 3.8 million passengers. Recording a net + 10% over the previous annuity.
Red. Int
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