The French government will invest 100 billion euros to expand and upgrade the rail network to reduce the country’s carbon emissions. This was announced last week by French Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne.
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For sustainably adding to edge of railways, now old, “state of the art”, standard track has to be outed!
(Standard, not optimal 30 years ago, most certainly now is not.
Costly, current “optimal maintenance” is not optimal.)
Safely, redundancy, “height”, is needed for future demand, for ensuring sustainability and high quality transports.