Brussels officially boasts the second largest car-free pedestrian zone in Europe now that the handsome stretch between Place Fontainas and Place de Brouckere, along with many of its side streets, is now off limits to motor vehicles. Officially, only Venice has a larger car-less centre.
For over a decade plans and negotiations have been in the works to restrict cars to the city centre. The public in
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China remains the pacesetter in the world rail speed race, according to the latest World Speed Survey published in Railway Gazette International on July 1.
Authored by Jeremy Hartill of the UK’s Railway Performance Society, the biennial survey compiles in tabular form the fastest timetabled start-to-stop journeys between different pairs of stations in countries around the world. Most of the fastest timings occur between intermediate stations, where
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The first of 12 Alstom Duplex high speed trainsets for national railway ONCF was unloaded at the Port of Tanger on June 29. It had been shipped from the Port of La Pallice near La Rochelle in France onboard Ville de Bordeaux, a roll-on roll-off vessel custom-built to carry Airbus A380 aircraft sections.
‘Flagship initiatives’ including the Rail Baltica standard gauge line, the Brenner base tunnel and the Fehmarn Belt fixed link are amongst the 276 transport projects which the European Commission has selected to receive €13,1bn of Connecting Europe Facility funding under the September 2014 call for proposals. Other projects selected include the Caland Bridge in Rotterdam, the Iron Rhine and improvements to cross-border links between Groningen and Bremen.
