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This September 2005 we are voting on a ‘railway package’. However, for rail workers, passengers, public service and the train stations in our small rural towns, this is not a ‘gift package’.
It is all very well to worry about an international certificate for train drivers, to talk about competition between road and rail and to want European passengers’ rights. In France, however, the TGV will reach Nice only in 2020, two years after a permanent space station has been built on the moon.
Train stations are closing or are falling into disrepair like in Sainte-Gabelle, not far from Toulouse, while the Paris-Bordeaux-Pau-Madrid line, together with the Paris-Montpellier-Perpignan-Barcelona line, still do not exist. Thousands of kilometres of rail tracks are no longer maintained, forcing the TERs to travel at 80 km/h instead of at 120 km/h. In Tarascon sur Ariège, the train station only opens at 3.00 p.m. for one train – the Tour de Carol-Toulouse – that departs at 2.50 p.m. …
Thus, when Europe’s rail system is deteriorating to the standard of UK railways, what is urgently needed is a massive rail plan in order to link up finally, in the next decade, the 25 European capitals with high-speed rail lines."@en1
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