Well, not 300 km/h, but the 250 km/h Cisalpino trains can be counted as high speed. They will be able to attain that speed on both NEAT lines and (if the signalling system is ready) the Mattstetten-Rothrist Bahn2000 line - which aren't mere improvements, but capacity increases by adding parallel tracks. And this in a country without far-from-each-other multi-million cities to connect like Paris and Lyons. Also, the costs of the Gotthard NEAT line are well beyond that of a non-Alpine 300 km/h high-speed line say between Zürich and Bern.

So all in all, I think you Swiss quite rightly spend as much money on both new and old railways as the Germans and French should have spent, too - yours is a model, the best model to follow. (To a lesser degree, Spain too.)

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One whose delusions are out of fashion.}