Talk:AlpTransit
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[edit] Redirects
I am thinking about making a redirect to Gotthard Base Tunnel.. Nova77 07:12, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)
the article says used to say "The project consists in two different sites" but, according to a quick superficial reading of their site (in french) (see e.g. here in PDF format), there are additional (if more minor or "second phase") works involved. --FvdP 17:54, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
- replaced "site" with "axis" in the above in the article: sounds better to me. YMMV. --FvdP 18:22, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
- In fact the Gotthard Base Tunnel is one (the biggest) project of AlpTransit. The other big one is the Loetchberg Tunnel, but there are also a lot of minor upgrades that will be done on the north/south network in order to support high speed trains. Maybe we should merge Gotthard Base Tunnel and AlpTransit, and send the first one into a section of this page. --Nova77 21:33, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Project purpose
Please be aware that the main purpose of this entire project is Intermodal freight transport, not passenger transport. The shorter travel times are just a nice side-effect. Current estimates for the final price tag are 22 billion swiss francs (~ $ 17.6 billion). Such an amount of money would not be spent to reduce traveltime from Milan to Zurich by one hour. --Cooper from german wikipedia.de 28 July 2006
