As an interesting aside, I note that French traffic is going down, which is another kind of performance... I assume this is due to the fire at the MontBlanc tunnel and subsequent traffic diversion.
(Another point - there is a lot of work currently under way on the Lyon-Turin rail link - see this for instance...) In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
Good point about the MontBlanc fire, altough from the graph and more data in the article I took it from, rail traffic also decreased in absolute as well as relative numbers... But maybe that was due to the Monte Carlo tunnel closure?
I don't have many French sources, so thanks for that on the Lyon-Turin link. BTW, I recall the project was put on hold after Jospin was out - how was Chirac's and the right-wing government's opposition overcome? *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
