Rail News Blogging #26 | 35 comments (35 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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Here's a list of the LGV projects put off until who-knows-when:

Le gouvernement démine la fin du tout-TGV - Libération		The government clears the way for the end of the all-TGV - Liberation
la plupart des projets de lignes à grande vitesse (LGV): Marseille-Nice, Bordeaux-Espagne, Paris-Normandie, Paris-Orléans-Clermont-Lyon, Poitiers-Limoges, Montpellier-Perpignan, achèvement des lignes Rhin-Rhône, etc. Seule la LGV Bordeaux-Toulouse serait lancée d'ici 2030. Et encore, seulement dans le scénario optimiste (c'est à dire dépensier), que le gouvernement n'a pas encore validé.		Most projects of high-speed lines (LGV): Marseille-Nice, Bordeaux, Spain, Paris, Normandy, Paris-Orleans-Clermont-Lyon, Poitiers, Limoges, Montpellier, Perpignan, completion of the Rhine-Rhône lines, etc.. Only the LGV Bordeaux-Toulouse would be launched by 2030. And then only in the optimistic scenario (ie spendthrift), that the government has not yet validated.

All three you mention are on the list: Marseille-Nice, Paris-Orléans-Clermont-Lyon, Montpellier-Perpignan. And note that even Bordeaux-Toulouse is still conditional.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sat Jun 29th, 2013 at 04:06:01 PM EST
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Damn Google Translate thinks hyphens are commas.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sat Jun 29th, 2013 at 04:07:06 PM EST
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So what heralded itself a year ago came to pass. My comment still stands:

As for the French government's austerian logic, it makes no sense on the medium term: spending in the next few years would be mostly already committed state contributions to the on-going PPP projects, like LGV Bretagne (which started construction on 27 July).

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sat Jun 29th, 2013 at 04:31:11 PM EST
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Rail News Blogging #26 | 35 comments (35 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)