{"id":64552,"date":"2026-05-13T07:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/64552\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T07:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:54:10","slug":"geneva-lausanne-rail-link-under-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/64552\/","title":{"rendered":"Geneva\/Lausanne rail link under pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Wednesday, 13 May 2026 06:30\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/633ceebe07eb8.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The rail link between Geneva and Lausanne is reaching breaking point.\n        <\/p>\n<p>According to public data analyzed by RTS, some evening services are now among the busiest trains in the country, with commuter numbers on the route expected to approach 90,000 passengers a day.<\/p>\n<p>Transport chiefs in both Geneva and Vaud say infrastructure investment has failed to keep pace with the region\u2019s rapid economic and population growth.<\/p>\n<p>Geneva State Councillor Pierre Maudet warned the network is so saturated that even minor incidents can disrupt the entire system.<\/p>\n<p>Projects intended to expand capacity have faced repeated delays.<\/p>\n<p>Politicians \u00a0in French-speaking Switzerland are angered by Bern as they say federal transport policies are ignoring western parts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 13 May 2026 06:30 The rail link between Geneva and Lausanne is reaching breaking point. According to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3166,3172,3173,3164,197,3171,3169,65,3175,3168,94,3167,3165,3170,1202,3163,3177,3176,1878,41,3179,17,3178,3174,3162,3161],"class_list":{"0":"post-64552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lausanne","8":"tag-anglophone-radio-station","9":"tag-broadcast","10":"tag-butcher","11":"tag-english-radio","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-expat","14":"tag-fm","15":"tag-geneva","16":"tag-geneve","17":"tag-internet-radio","18":"tag-lausanne","19":"tag-local-news-geneva","20":"tag-local-radio","21":"tag-media","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-radio-frontier","24":"tag-ski-news","25":"tag-ski-update","26":"tag-snow-report","27":"tag-swiss","28":"tag-swiss-news","29":"tag-switzerland","30":"tag-switzerland-news","31":"tag-whats-on","32":"tag-world-radio-switzerland","33":"tag-wrs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116566193934749453","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}