Legambiente: “Important Webuild project, good wishes for US railway investment policy”

“Finally the US, after much discussion, decides to build a new high-speed railway line. In the United States rail investments have been at a standstill for many decades, so much so that the only railway lines that work on both coasts are a legacy of the last century and the train is very little used. This project is financed with private funds, so it is not yet one of the large investments promised by Biden with the recently approved law on large public investments, it will be necessary to understand what it will move. is the beginning of a US rail investment policy “. This is how AdnKronos Edoardo Zanchini, national vice president of Legambiente, on the first US high-speed line between Houston and Dallas, entrusted to the Italian group Webuild which won the maxi order worth 16 billion dollars. The Texas High Speed ​​Rail will ensure fast, safe, and environmentally friendly travel to 13 million people who today travel between the two cities by car, the most widely used means by Americans to travel across the Texan state, or by plane. An important project “for the country where there is the greatest use, for transport, of cars and airplanes: if we want to achieve the objectives on greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, it is inevitable that the United States will have to change the model of travel – adds Zanchini – The electric car will not be enough, a share of journeys by rail will also be needed. The thing to understand, for the next few years, is whether this project will be the first to relaunch high-speed rail on a European model, also because entrusted to an Italian company, and if it will bring with it other projects made also with public resources which are those of Biden’s plan “.