The Federal Council has decided to prioritise funding for the Grimsel Pass railway tunnel (which primarily serves tourists) rather than invest in developing redundancy on the Lausanne-Geneva line, which carries tens of thousands of commuters daily.

Once again, the Federal Council shows us that it values the concerns of German-speaking Switzerland more than those of economic centres such as Lausanne or Geneva. It is also worth noting that the redundancy mentioned above should have been implemented under the Rail 2000 plan. It still hasn’t been. Under the same plan, the line between Lausanne and Bern should have been improved to reduce travel times between the two cities to 1 hour. They still haven’t even gotten close.