Euro crisis ends Portugal's high-speed bid

摘要

The Portuguese government has announced that it plans to build a high-speed network connecting Porto with Lisbon and Lisbon with Madrid have been "definitively abandoned"as a result of the Eurozone financial crisis.Construction of a 1,435mm (standard) gauge freight line into Spain to connect the Portuguese Atlantic coast ports to the rest of the EU standard gauge network via Barcelona remains a long-term aim.