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> Totally honest question - have there been recent expansions of train lines into cities in Europe? In the last 20 years There's a lot of ongoing extensions, b
by tonfa 2y ago
> Totally honest question - have there been recent expansions of train lines into cities in Europe? In the last 20 years
There's a lot of ongoing extensions, but into existing train station.
Eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttgart_21 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttgart_21
https://www.zvv.ch/zvv/en/about-us/projects/in-betrieb/cross-city-link.html https://www.zvv.ch/zvv/en/about-us/projects/in-betrieb/cross...
https://company.sbb.ch/en/the-company/projects/german-speaking-switzerland/central-switzerland/new-lucerne-station.html https://company.sbb.ch/en/the-company/projects/german-speaki...
(Switzerland has bunch of those since they typically expand capacity with 20-30y horizon)
- noirbot 2y agoYea, I suppose I should have been more specific - it's also obviously easier to "upgrade" a line you already have the land and space for. It's not trivial, since you have to sacrifice some of the throughput in the meantime to support the construction, but it's easier than building an entirely new line. Also, kinda tough reading that Stuttgart link where it seems like it was generally unpopular and the police did crimes to suppress dissent. I don't really know the details to have an opinion on if they're right, but still.
- tonfa 2y agoThe swiss links are totally new lines, not "upgrades". But given it's Switzerland they just decide to do it all underground.