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Rail Baltica project is not ambitious enough
Juhan Tere, BC, Tallinn, 14.01.2010.
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Print versionEstonia’s Eurocommissioner Siim Kallas, who aspires for the post of European Transport Commissioner, said on Thursday that one of the reasons why the Rail Baltica project is lagging is that it isn’t ambitious enough, Eesti Päevaleht Online/LETA reports.
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Kallas said during the three-hour hearing at the European Parliament, when asked about the future of Rail Baltica, that railway transport is one of his priorities and that the train traffic of the Baltic states has to be linked with the rest of the European rail network.
“The Rail Baltica project reflects the ambitions of member states connected to it, which aren’t very high. I will try to put pressure on them to move forward with the project and raise the ambitions level of Rail Baltica,” said Kallas.
Kallas admitted that people consider the project expensive since it means that rails in the Baltic states would have to be replaced as the rail width doesn’t fit with the rest of Europe.
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