Le Figaro - Conjoncture : L'État va renoncer à des projets de ligne TGV
I used Google Translate and microsofttranslate.com on it. Google Translate turns the title into "The State will give up plans of TGV".
LGV: the confirmed lines, and the others...
Black: Existing LGV
Dark Red: Under-construction LGV, or whose construction is confirmed.
Orange: Planned LGV
They are finding themselves short on money, so they are asking which of their planned lines that they would prefer to build.
They will likely build or continue to build these lines:
However, these lines may be cancelled or placed on low priority:
Lines not mentioned:
Rouen: 0.65m, Le Havre: 0.29m, Caen: 0.11m
Le Mans: 0.15m, Rennes: 0.21m, Brest: 0.14m, Quimper: 0.06m, Nantes: 0.80m
Tours: 0.31m, Limoges: 0.14m, Bordeaux: 1.11m, Toulouse: 1.2m, Dax: 0.02m, Mont de Marsan: 0.03m, Tarbes: 0.11m
Montpellier: 0.26m, Marseille: 1.6m, Nice: 1.0m
Orléans: 0.12m, Bourges: 0.07m, Nevers: 0.04m, Clermont-Ferrand: 0.14m (close to the line) - a line intended as a second Paris-Lyon one
Lyon: 2.1m, Dijon: 0.25m, Mulhouse: 0.28m
Turin: 2.2m
Strasbourg: 0.64m, Köln (Cologne), Germany: 1.01m
I used Google Translate and microsofttranslate.com on it. Google Translate turns the title into "The State will give up plans of TGV".
LGV: the confirmed lines, and the others...
Black: Existing LGV
Dark Red: Under-construction LGV, or whose construction is confirmed.
Orange: Planned LGV
They are finding themselves short on money, so they are asking which of their planned lines that they would prefer to build.
They will likely build or continue to build these lines:
- LeMans - Rennes
- Tours - Bordeaux
- Metz/Nancy - Strasbourg
- Nîmes - Montpellier
- Bordeaux - Toulouse, reducing the Paris-Toulouse time from 5h to 3h15m.
- Paris Gare de l'Est - Charles de Gaulle Airport in Roissy
However, these lines may be cancelled or placed on low priority:
- Marseille - Nice, which is expensive, there is no agreement on the route, and the Paris-Nice by TGV will not be much faster than by air.
- Lyon-Turin, which now would have rather low freight traffic, not enough to pay for it over 20 years. However, if the economy takes off again, there will be plenty more.
- Rhin-Rhône's remaining 50 km between Dijon and Mulhouse, which will cost about 1 billion euros for about 10 min improvement.
- Rennes to Brest or Quimper, which may be a bit expensive for the passengers it will have.
- Poitiers to Limoges, likewise.
- Bordeaux to the border with Spain, a lame duck because it's rather expensive and there's opposition to high-speed lines in the Basque country. It may only go to Mont de Marsan or Dax.
Lines not mentioned:
- Paris to Caen or Rouen - Le Havre
- Rennes to Nantes
- Paris to Orléans - Bourges or Nevers, then to Lyon
- Dijon / Besançon - Bourg-en-Bresse - Lyon
- Narbonne - Montpellier, Perpignan, Toulouse
- Dax - Tarbes
Rouen: 0.65m, Le Havre: 0.29m, Caen: 0.11m
Le Mans: 0.15m, Rennes: 0.21m, Brest: 0.14m, Quimper: 0.06m, Nantes: 0.80m
Tours: 0.31m, Limoges: 0.14m, Bordeaux: 1.11m, Toulouse: 1.2m, Dax: 0.02m, Mont de Marsan: 0.03m, Tarbes: 0.11m
Montpellier: 0.26m, Marseille: 1.6m, Nice: 1.0m
Orléans: 0.12m, Bourges: 0.07m, Nevers: 0.04m, Clermont-Ferrand: 0.14m (close to the line) - a line intended as a second Paris-Lyon one
Lyon: 2.1m, Dijon: 0.25m, Mulhouse: 0.28m
Turin: 2.2m
Strasbourg: 0.64m, Köln (Cologne), Germany: 1.01m