Geneva letter
“With a little irony, I should rejoice it. The price of tickets continues to increase, but we are rewarded in kind, since we spend more and more time on the train for the same route! »» The sarcastic commentary of this user of the Lausanne-Genève line badly hides the annoyance which earns the 70,000 daily travelers of the section. Since the last annual change in national schedules, on December 15, 2024, the largest in twenty years, the federal railways (CFF) have further slowed down the pace of trains on the Lake Geneva, one of the most loaded axes in the country.
In 2001, the fastest convoys roamed the 60.3 kilometers that separated the two large French -speaking cities into thirty and one minutes, an average of 117 km/h. Twenty-three years later, the same journey lasts at least thirty-nine minutes and is made at 93 km/h, an extension of the time of 26 %. Trains have never circulated so slowly in French -speaking Switzerland for decades. According to the public audiovisual group Romand RTS, which regularly grabs this vexatious subject, and made the calculations, “A pendulum thus loses, each week, an hour twenty more on the train on this line in 2001.”
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