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But these demands have resulted in many infrastructure projects – such as the third runway at Heathrow or the high-speed railway between Turin and Lyon – being postponed for years.
Xi committed China to invest $20 billion in India over the next five years, particularly to modernize India’s decrepit and overused railway system.
And despite a massive response from the German government and members of the public, many asylum-seekers ended up sleeping on the streets and in railway stations.
This is true of railway fares throughout continental Europe, which are subsidized by government.
The recent $568 billion fiscal stimulus package, which will be spent on railway expansion, subway construction, low-budget housing programs for the poor, irrigation systems, rural social security, and health care, will add a few percentage points to growth over the next couple years.
But for the French, what really matters is Macron’s management of domestic problems, of which there are many, not least rolling strikes by railway workers across the country.
Until the end of June, employees of the French state-owned railway company SNCF plan to strike for two out of every five days to oppose the Macron government’s planned reforms to the company.
The SNCF’s operating costs are 30% higher than those of comparable railway systems in neighboring countries, and its performance is poorer.
This is one reason why the French railway system brings in just €10 billion ($12 billion) per year, even though it costs €24 billion annually to operate.
And to that end, Macron has proposed a strategy to shore up the French railway system for the long term.
Beyond that, Macron wants to open up the railway system to allow new operators to compete against the SNCF.
In Italy and Sweden, more railway competition has reduced ticket prices by 15%.And, in Germany, competition lowered the government’s expenses by 20%.
Each kilometer of regional traffic now costs the state-owned railway operator, Deutsche Bahn, €15, compared to €23 for the SNCF.
At the same time, liberalization of the railway sector promises to improve the quality of service, both in terms of travel time and punctuality.
Given this dismal state of affairs, it is worth asking why French railway unions are staging such a large-scale protest against reforms that would only affect new recruits in the future.
After all, he knows what the CGT knows: that his railway policy could make or break his credibility as a reformer.
The expansion of infrastructure investment – which, according to some reports, exceeds 50 trillion renminbi, including highway and high-speed railway construction – will lead to the expansion of banks’ balance sheets.
Lhasa, a sleepy, rather grubby backwater only 30 years ago, is now a city of huge public squares, shopping centers, and high-rise buildings, connected to the rest of China with a high-speed railway line.
Meanwhile, eight new railway lines, covering 200 kilometers and with a daily capacity of close to four million people, have become operational this year, alongside 60 kilometers of bus lines.
A Trip Through Putin CountryVLADIVOSTOK – Russia’s Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) railway “can be hardly named as a popular tourist attraction,” says one tourist website of the some 2,000-mile railway traversing Eastern Siberia and the Russian Far East.
So three friends joined me on an improbable two-week railway adventure across Siberia.
The railway was, the story said, “the roll-call of our youth.”
The recently signed wage agreement for all railway employees, negotiated by the rival unions Transnet and GDBA, did not go far enough for the GDL, which is now holding out for a 31% wage hikes.
If the GDL gets a higher wage settlement than achieved in the general wage agreement for all railway workers, the general agreement will become invalid – an outcome that the railway management cannot accept under any conditions.
With the privatization of Germany’s railway, which will shortly be concluded with its listing on the stock market, these civil servants will disappear.
Today, 40% of German train drivers are still permanent civil servants who have been leased from the state by the privatized railway.
Immediately before the Beijing-Shanghai railway was built, the Chinese Ministry for Railways initiated international patent claims concerning the technology used in the CRH380A.
With demand extremely large, international competition to construct high-speed railway networks is becoming intense, as the lobbying for the California contract demonstrates.
For example, Russian firms are planning to help rebuild North Korea’s railway network in exchange for access to the country’s undeveloped mineral resources.
A survey conducted in the Indian city of Mumbai revealed that railway commuters’ average daily journey was 22 kilometers, while rapid urbanization there and in much of the developing world is only likely to increase the length of commutes.
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