Major Swiss cities are planning for the (rail) future
The three largest Swiss cities now all have projects to extend their “S-Bahn” (regional/commuter rail networks) systems with new rail lines crossing the city centers and adding stations in central locations or at least enabling new through routings of previously unconnected commuter lines, thus making suburb-to-suburb connections easier.
- Basel:
The “Herzstück Basel” project (http://www.herzstueck-basel.ch/) calls for a new rail line (mostly in a tunnel) connecting the Hauptbahnhof and Badischer Bahnhof stations with intermediate stops in the city center. The layout of the new link should enable new connections from almost every commuter line to all the central stations in the city.
- Geneve:
The CEVA projects (http://www.geneve.ch/ceva/) seeks to connect the existing SNCF line from Annemasse terminating at the outlying Eaux-Vives station to the SBB line at the La Praille freight yard (close to where the new Lancy-Pont Rouge station is located). The line would serve both S-Bahn and Intercity trains.
- Zurich:
The “Löwenstrasse Station” project (http://www.bahn2000zh.ch/Lowen.htm) calls for a new (third) subterranean addition to the Zurich Main Station that is connected to a new line to Zurich Oerlikon (with connections to the lines to Schaffhausen, Winterthur and Dübendorf). This would replace the current temporary Sihlpost station that is used by all S-Bahn trains that do not use the current Museumstrasse subterranean station. Some preliminary work connected with this project has already been done during the recent construction work at Zurich Main Station (platform enlargement for tracks 3 - 9) in preparation for the Bahn 2000 schedule.
The big question for all these projects is - where will the money come from…?
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