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Swedish rail and road network development has been accounted to be very poor and backwards
Wednesday, 07 March 2012
Sweden is faring very poorly in the European region in terms of
investment in roads and railways, according to a new compilation that
is being widely reported in Sweden now. This assessment stretches as
early as the 90th century.
According to the Swedish business daily, Dagens Industri the
compilation was made by Jan Edling, an analyst at Vinnova, and it will
be presented at an expert seminar for the Social Democrats organized in
the Swedish parliament on Wednesday.
Political ethics, based on figures from Euroconstruct, shows that
Sweden has long lagged behind Europe in terms of investment in roads
and railways. This something the European commission has had pointed
and accused the Swedish government of piling up money in the forms of
show that they have a better public finances while infrastructure are
not invested in.
"If you look at roads and railways, we are 70 percent below the European level, "said Jan Edling.
"We will have a very poor infrastructure than Europe when they’ll start
booming again, we will fall behind," he says. Ever since the mid
-1990s, the Swedish investment as a share of GDP was much lower than
the average in 15 European countries, according to the compilation.
Only two countries, Norway and France, have invested less than Sweden
on railway since 2007. Then still the gap between Sweden and other
countries in Europe have declined somewhat in recent years.
Countries that have invested more in railways are Spain and Switzerland.
Even road improvement and development in Sweden has been modest in
Sweden compared to other European countries. A total of 11 out of 15
surveyed countries in Europe have invested more in their road and
motorways than Sweden in the last four years, according to figures from
Euroconstruct.
Portugal, Spain and the Netherlands have invested most on their road networks, the data show.
Commenting on the figures, Jan Edling, writes to the under-funded
Swedish infrastructure that it will lead to loss of economic
competitiveness and inhibits mobility. Also, growth may be a hit
especially in the metropolitan areas, according to Jan Edling.
According to calculations that Social Democrats have made in connection
to Jan Edlings summary, the annual Swedish investment in the transport
system have to increase by Skr15 billion to reach the average for the
15 countries surveyed in Europe.
By Scancomark.se Team
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