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Many of these projects were started in times where the needs of the infrastructure had priority over local objections and environmental protection laws were not
by mschuster91 2y ago
Many of these projects were started in times where the needs of the infrastructure had priority over local objections and environmental protection laws were not much of a thing though. There's a reason most of Europe's rail network is decades, sometimes centuries old, and there hasn't been much new construction for a loooong time.
- inglor_cz 2y ago"There's a reason most of Europe's rail network is decades, sometimes centuries old, and there hasn't been much new construction for a loooong time." I beg to differ. There is quite a lot of HSR construction in Europe going on right now. Italy: Brescia-Verona, Verona-Vicenza, Vicenza-Padua, the Brenner Basis Tunnel to Austria, Turin-Lyon, Naples-Bari, Palermo-Catania-Messina France: Bordeaux-Toulouse, Lyon-Turin to Italy Spain: Murcia-Almería, the Basque Y, Burgos–Vitoria-Gasteiz, Madrid-Extremadura Austria: Koralmbahn, Semmering Basis Tunnel Germany-Denmark: Fehmarn Tunnel UK: London-Birmingham The Baltic States: Rail Baltica All in active construction right now. Some with delays, as usual.