Indeed when none of the impact studies have been completed, no public consultation has been conducted; not to mention choosing the final alignment, tendering the PPP concessionnaire, and tendering the detailed design and then construction -- it won't come before 2018, or even 2023, methinks. And the same goes for Bordeaux-Dax(-Bayonne-Irún), on the intended primary Madrid-Paris connection.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}