France Is Building A $28 BILLION Tunnel To Italy Through The Alps
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Published 2024-07-12
France and Italy rank as each other's second-largest trading partners, with trade between them amounting to hundreds of billions of dollars annually. Thus, establishing a high-quality transport link is economically vital. However, the Alps Mountain range, stretching across the entire Franco-Italian border and reaching elevations of up to 3 miles above sea level, poses a significant challenge to achieving this transport goal. But in a bold endeavour to connect the two nations, France and Italy are now undertaking the construction of a $28 billion railway through the Alps. Today, we will explore the new Turin-Lyon Railway, examining the scope of its construction, its distinctive features, and its positive and negative impacts.
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0:00 Intro
0:56 The Need for a New Railway
2:28 Origins of the Project
3:41 The Turin-Lyon Railway
4:41 Mont d'Ambin Base Tunnel
5:43 Features of the New Rail Link
7:05 Construction Progress
8:28 Benefits of the Project
10:07 Criticism and Controversies
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All Comments (21)
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Change the title, it is being built by both Italy and France
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It is France AND Italy together that build the tunnel, not only France. The Swiss have done this on their own some years ago with the Gotthard tunnel of 55 km.
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Wtf, it's both France AND Italy, why highlight only France on the title? It's a serious channel this?
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Why are you showing NYC trains?
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Why distances in miles? The international unit is the kilometer, wake up, man!
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4:28 ...why are you showing a rail network map of SPAIN?
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Way to go!
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This is impressive ! Meanwhile here in Québec, Canada we can't afford asphalt for our roads and besides, in Canada, we don't care for trains.
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And Italy pays more then France for it!
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I am sure that this mega railway project will be opened BEFORE 2030
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Great project. Seems to be going ok. If it was in the UK it would now be three years behind schedule, and four times over budget. Time we had a Manchester to Leeds base tunnel……………
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Completely misleading! There's not one single Dollar spent on that project! It's in Europe (a lesser-known geographical area outside the U S., but still on earth). And YES, there's human life outside the U.S., with people speaking their own languages, using their own measures und having their own currencies!
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Connectivity & Transparency is the Future of Europe 🇪🇺
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Quite impressive.Italy especially needs to get rid of very short stage length flights, which France supposedly is implementing.
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It's a great project - really worthwhile. But why the random video clips and so little on the forecast structure and level of the environmental and economic benefits?
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I’m curious where exactly this railway will go. I often think railway should be used for the goods transport. As it’s right now European motorways are taken over by trucks . I look forward . A month ago we were driving from Turin🇮🇹 to Swiss town of Montreux and there is unfortunately no railway there . Would be nice to connect the railway to Switzerland too …
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Oui!
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France and Italy , togheter building....
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Your video is verbaly correct but your images are way from being right. You are talking ofFrance and Italy but showing the railways of the UK on occasions. You need better research on the imagaes side. PS and the New York subway????
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The worlds gonna look like a hollowed out minecraft server soon
