Plans take Shape for 2030 network

摘要

Not long ago plans were being drawn up for a second stage in the Bahn 2000 programme. Changes in transport policy, a shortfall in federal funding and an increase in the cost of building Switzerland's two base tunnels, plus the lack of a consensus on what should be included in a second stage, have altered the situation, and future developments are no longer so clear cut. The original intention had been to move ahead immediately after the first stage was completed, but this proved impossible. However, other major projects whose funding was approved by referendum in 1998 are unaffected: the Loetschberg and Gotthard base tunnels, and the programme to reduce railway noise, which covers both modifications to the rolling stock fleet and measures such as sound barriers to cut noise in built-up areas.