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The Helvetic federal Council starts a consultation on the financing and widening of the railway infrastructure
SBB CFF FFS has received with favor the proposal to create a specific bottom, on condition that the essential entrepreneurial space of the company is guaranteed
April 1, 2011
The Helvetic federal Council has started a consultation on the proposals for the future financing and widening of the railway infrastructure. Switzerland must in fact find the Swiss resources until 500 million franchi per year - up to now lacking - in order financing the exercise and the maintenance of the existing net, but it needs also to retrieve ulterior huge investments in order to widen the railway infrastructure in order to tackle to a question of transports on track in fort increase. According to the forecasts, until 2025 - in the first phase of widening of the Helvetic railway infrastructure - they will be necessary investments for 3,5 billion franchi Swiss to completion of the work of potenziamento for 5,4 billion franchi Swiss in course in the within of the program for the future development of railway infrastructure (SIF).
The objective is therefore to create a solid base in the long term financial institution for the exercise, the maintenance and the widening of the railway infrastructure. The federal Council has already announced own intention to reach such scope with the creation of a new bottom for the railway infrastructure (FInFer) and with the resource to additional entrances ( on 20 January 2011). With this attempt the Swiss government has established the formulation to follow in matter of financing and widening of the railway infrastructure being decided to introduce the relative project as controproposta directed to contrast the popular initiative For transport "publics" who - according to the federal Council - do not resolve the problems of financing of public transport, but he simply transfers them to the street transports.
After the conclusion of the consultation near the Districts, the parties and the associations, the federal Council will transmit a message to the Chambers within the spring of 2012 to which it will follow a popular voting that will take place presumablly in 2013-2014.
Railway group Swiss SBB CFF FFS has received with favor the proposal of the government to finance the railway net with the creation of appropriate a wide infrastructural bottom and has specified that, with regard to the planned development of the railway and infrastructural offer, the company supports the previewed development to stages. However SBB CFF FFS has emphasized that, in the within of the system of financing, it will be necessary to assure that is guaranteed the essential entrepreneurial space of SBB CFF FFS: "only in this way - it has observed the company - they can be guaranteed the stimuli for ulterior increases of the efficiency". The railway society has explained that it must be mail in a position to achieving on the market necessary financial means to the attainment of the objectives of increase of the offer and of the quality, efficiency and safety of the services and that in order to make this a space of maneuver in the within of the oriented tariff definition is necessary to uses it that the customer makes of means of transport.
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