05.12.2013
The Rail Baltic Steering Committee decided that local train traffic opportunities will be taken into account more than before when planning the railway connection.
According to Rail Baltic project manager Indrek Sirp, the priority is still international high-speed train connections, but attention is also being paid to creating opportunities for local train traffic. “The possibility of local traffic is not the main criterion for selecting a route, but it is an additional argument when comparing alternative routes,” said Sirp at today's Rail Baltic Steering Committee meeting at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications.
In addition, the steering committee took note of the ministry's position on the further development of current railway lines. According to the draft Transport Development Plan 2014-2020, the state will continue to invest in railway infrastructure to ensure speeds of 120 km/h and in some cases up to 140 km/h.
The Rail Baltic Steering Committee includes representatives of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications, the Ministry of the Environment, the Ministry of the Interior, and the county governors of Harju, Rapla, and Pärnu.
Rail Baltic is a modern and fast electrified railway connection connecting Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania with a track width of 1435 millimeters (the so-called European width), running from Tallinn via Riga and Kaunas to Warsaw. As a wider corridor, Rail Baltic covers Scandinavia and Russia in the north, and Western Europe on the other.
Allikas: Äripäev Online, http://www.aripaev.ee/?PublicationId=d4a2ec04-dd19-4349-8ec8-33070b3c3d8f&ref=rss
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