French engineer Systra has received a nine-year contract on France’s greatest high-speed rail challenge: a 400km-long, Y-shaped line working south from Bordeaux and splitting to go southwest to the city of Dax and southeast to Toulouse.
The €14bn first section of the “Grand Projet Ferroviaire du Sud-Ouest” (GPSO) extends the Excursions-Bordeaux high-speed route that opened in 2017.
By 2032, when it’s scheduled to be working, the GPSO will minimize journey instances between the key cities in France’s southwest amid inhabitants development within the Occitanie and Nouvelle-Aquitaine areas.
It’ll minimize an hour off the 4h10 journey from Paris to Toulouse, and almost an hour off the 2h01 journey between Bordeaux and Toulouse.
A later section will lengthen the jap and western legs into Spain’s Catalonia and Basque areas, chopping an hour off the 4h50 experience between Bordeaux and Barcelona, Systra notes.
The French State and 25 native authorities in Occitanie and Nouvelle-Aquitaine will break up the €14bn price of the primary section 40:40, with the EU chipping within the remaining 20%, says the prefect of Occitanie area, the megaproject’s coordinator
The GPSO has been declared a public utility challenge.
Systra will act as the final and technical challenge administration assistant on behalf of French state rail operator SNCF.
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