by David Edwards-May | Jul 12, 2012 | Inland water transport, New waterways, Waterway funding
The Seine-Nord canal project is now very close to being abandoned by the French Government, along with the Lyon-Turin rail link and base tunnel and about 15 other sections of the high-speed rail network, promoted in 2010 under the ‘Grenelle’ package of...
by David Edwards-May | May 7, 2012 | Waterfront development
It is sad how ideas conceived with the best of intentions by local politicians sometimes go hopelessly wrong because their implementation is dictated by trends and political expediency. Visiting Chanaz on May 6, I discovered this impressive addition to what is already...