In France this means better slow trains, not just more TGVs
of a branch railway line that winds through wooded valleys in central France, a single carriage pulls into the little town of Ussel. The station has scarcely changed since it was built in 1880. Passengers still step over the rails to cross to the platform opposite. Clumps of grass and tall weeds sprout between the tracks.
Mindful of this divide, the French government recently decided to switch track. As part of President Emmanuel Macron’s push to cut carbon emissions, it wants more people on the railways, and fewer behind the wheel. But it knows that such a strategy cannot be based only on fast trains. “Theis a source of pride, and for a lot of big cities has been a motor for economic development,” Clément Beaune, the transport minister, told: “But we have underinvested in certain other lines.
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