Why isn’t there a more direct train and autobahn in between Zürich and Bern? It would be 15% shorter

by b3MxZG8R3C9GRTHV

12 comments

  1. Cause that line goes beneath a lot of hills and would cost 100 billions for the tunnels, and end up passing economic powerhouses such as Ramsei, Häusernmoos, Sursee and Aesch, which each would contribute dozens of passengers to the train?

    There is currently a plan to maybe extend the Bahn 2000 line all the way to Zürich, but it’d be more to the north, and still probably cost 20b https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahn_2000#/media/Datei:Illustrierte_Karte_der_Neuen_Haupttransversale.jpg

  2. Turn on the terrain layer and find out.

    Also, why build a highway that essentially only connects Zurich and Bern when you can have one that connects several more cities?

  3. assuming this isn’t a circlejerk post:

    – your line goes straight through very hilly terrain that would require the construction of hugely expensive tunnels and bridges

    – your line goes through terrain that has very little population. why build a freeway through there when you can go through the very densely populated aare valley to the north?

  6. The part of the train line which is missing is between Wohlen and Reinach AG and from there to Sursee. Even more frustrating as the part between Wohlen and Fahrwangen, and the part between Beinwil and Beromünster existed in the past. Would it be a useful rout? Not really unless you build some costly tunnels and a crazy bridge over Hallwilersee. More surprising, why is there no train line between Willisau and Sursee?

    https://s.geo.admin.ch/a25af8dd14

    There are some ideas for a new tunnel. But it would be from Zurich to Aargau. Simply as the Mittelland is more important, then the Emmntal, Wynental, Seetal, Suhrental, and Wiggertal.

    [https://www.aargauerzeitung.ch/schweiz/in-weniger-als-45-minuten-von-zurich-nach-bern-und-zwar-unterirdisch-bis-aarau-ld.1531678](https://www.aargauerzeitung.ch/schweiz/in-weniger-als-45-minuten-von-zurich-nach-bern-und-zwar-unterirdisch-bis-aarau-ld.1531678)

  7. Who will pay that or support to pay that apart from the ones that commute Bern-Zürich?

  8. Because then it wouldn’t go through Olten. And what is life without going through Olten?

  11. Some people really need to take a long walk off a short plank…

  12. Because the current train line has a constant decline with only small inclines up until around lenzburg. With only few tunels.

Leave a Reply