Age of the fast train is over for France [Times]





Date: 28/06/2013

Anger spread through regional France yesterday after Paris turned its back on high-speed rail travel. Reversing 50 years of public policy, the government has approved a report that denounced fast trains as ruinous and suggested that the French should turn to boats and coaches instead.


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Age of the fast train is over for France

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Anger spread through regional France yesterday after Paris turned its back on high-speed rail travel. Reversing 50 years of public policy, the government has approved a report that denounced fast

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