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A Rastatt in Switzerland does not have to happen
The Committee of the prompt Lötschberg the widening without delays of the tunnel of base of the Lötschberg
January 12, 2018
"". It has emphasized Barbara Egger-Jenzer, councilwoman of the District of Bern and Co-president of the Committee of the Lötschberg, referring to the interruption two-month-old of the happened railway line last year to Rastatt, in Germany, that he has caused serious problems to the flows of traffic of the goods transported on track that are diverted on alternative distances enduring delays, facing obstacles and bottle necks that have determined a penalization of the rail shipment in confronts on the road of the transport.
Yesterday the Committee of the Lötschberg, organization that speeds up the potenziamento of the railway axis North-South through the tunnel of base of the Lötschberg, has evidenced that this tunnel, that june of 2007 is inaugurated to half and is essentially to only railroad(on 15 June 2007), data the continuous increase of the number of passengers and goods transported for railroad has already reached its limits of ability and has denounced irresponsibility to postpone the widening of the base gallery.
The Committee has emphasized the necessity to increase the ability to the tunnel so that the traffic can be absorbed also in case of interruption of the line of Saint Gottardo avoiding exactly a "Rastatt new", event that - it has observed Egger-Jenzer - would constitute a bane for politics of modal transfer time to the transport on train of volumes of goods that up to now they pass on the roads.
The Committee therefore has sped up the Helvetic federal Council to include a series of projects in the planning of the infrastructural net of the Confederation to the aim to afford among other things that on this important railway axis North-South is created the ability necessary in order to support the transport is of passengers who of goods let alone to guarantee a redundancy of sufficient ability to face the emergencies.
The Committee has found that the inclusion of the tunnel of base of the Lötschberg in the programs of potenziamento of the railway infrastructure would have to be discounted, as a pre-project exists already, the planning risks are minimums and the work could begin already in 2020. An ulterior delay - it has concluded the Committee - would be without some sense.
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"". It has emphasized Barbara Egger-Jenzer, councilwoman of the District of Bern and Co-president of the Committee of the Lötschberg, referring to the interruption two-month-old of the happened railway line last year to Rastatt, in Germany, that he has caused serious problems to the flows of traffic of the goods transported on track that are diverted on alternative distances enduring delays, facing obstacles and bottle necks that have determined a penalization of the rail shipment in confronts on the road of the transport.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
