The much-awaited national plan for transport is angering many politicians in Geneva as they say it favours the German speaking regions and western Switzerland is being pushed to one side.
The Weidmann report – headed by Andreas Meyer Weidmann, former CEO of Swiss Federal Railways - is a transport analysis ordered by the Federal Council. It takes a decades long view on the future of transport in the country.
The extension of Cornavin station is secured, as well as new tram lines. But the ideas of a metro project and a new lake crossing are dead.
Pierre Maudet, Geneva’s mobility minister, says the report “misunderstands the needs of the cross-border region” and downplays key routes like Geneva–Lausanne and Geneva–Lyon, warning of “a partial vision of Western Switzerland’s mobility.”
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