The work must be finished in May 2029, according to the Swiss railway company, the SBB. 14% of TER traffic from France will be affected, says the vice-president of the Grand-Est region.
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TER traffic between Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin) and Basel, Switzerland, will be very disrupted for more than three years, reports Friday, June 20 Here Alsace (ex-France blue). The Swiss railway company, the SBB, announces work until May 2029. This project touches the daily life of 6,000 cross -border workers who will work every day by train from Alsace.
The work will start in November 2025, details the SBB. 14% of TER traffic from France will be affected, says the vice-president of the Grand-Est region, in charge of transport, Thibaud Philipps, who believes that he has limited the damage: “We managed to reduce the impact. At the start we had to have an impact of 21% on traffic, finally it will be 14%. So we have 88 ter which will be assigned each week when we could have had 52 more at the start of the discussions. We managed to save 52 ter. But it is a subject that worries us and that worries users, it will have strong impacts.”
These works must lower the 50 cm tracks to allow to pass freight trains carrying semi-trailers of four meters.
