{"id":1183324,"date":"2023-09-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1183324"},"modified":"2023-09-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T16:00:00","slug":"european-governments-shrinking-railways-in-favour-of-road-building-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1183324","title":{"rendered":"European Governments Shrinking Railways in Favour of Road-Building, Report Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

European governments have “systematically” shrunk their railways and starved them of funding while pouring money into expanding their road network, a report has found. The Guardian: The length of motorways in Europe grew 60% between 1995 and 2020 while railways shrank 6.5%, according to research from the German thinktanks Wuppertal Institute and T3 Transportation. For every $1 governments spent building railways, they spent $1.7 building roads. “This is a political choice,” said Lorelei Limousin, a climate campaigner with Greenpeace, which commissioned the report. “We see the consequences today with the climate, but also with people who have been left without an alternative solution to cars.” <\/p>\n

The report found the EU, Norway, Switzerland and the UK spent $1.6tn between 1995 and 2018 to extend their roads — but just $0.99tn to extend their rail networks. In the four years that followed (2018-21), the average gap in investment in rail and road decreased from 66% to 34%. During that time, seven countries invested more in rail than roads — Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Luxembourg and the UK — while the rest spent more on roads than rail.<\/p>\n

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