Six Swiss cantons - Basel City, Basel Country, Geneva, Ticino, Valais and Vaud - have submitted a joint request to the Federal Council demanding urgent investments in rail services and infrastructure to deal with an overloaded network. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox "Every day tens of thousands of people commute for work and freight traffic continues to increase. Already today the network is overloaded," the cantons declare in a joint statement. The cantons fear that the situation will get even worse if no measures are taken. Ministers from the cantons responsible for construction, infrastructure and transport signed the document at the recent third national railway congress, Bahn26, held in Basel. + Read more: Swiss are keenest rail users in Europe The ministers have made three demands: planning must be supply-oriented, CHF24 billion must be set aside for the expansion of the rail network, and the east-west and north-south axes must be expanded, with ...
