Rail Baltica project skids with Estonia being the biggest lagger so far

  • 2022-01-04
  • Linas Jegelevicius, The Baltic Times editor-in-chief
The much-lauded high-speed European-gauge Rail Baltica (RB) project has hit several snags and will not meet its original planned deadline of 2026. Hesitancy to the project, as well as the adversity of COVID-19 and rising construction costs are key factors plaguing it. Estonia tasked the first fruits Kristjan Kaunissaare, Rail Baltica coordinator in the Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications (EMEAC), says that, by now, Estonia has determined ‘most of the railway corridor and the detailed route’, construction is already ...
 
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