Published on October 27, 2024 at 4:02 p.m. / Modified on October 28, 2024 at 07:35.
When it is not closed for work, the Mont-Blanc road tunnel is overloaded. And the traffic is just as dense as that of Fréjus, which, further south, connects, at an altitude of 1200 meters, the top of the Maurienne to Bardonecchia, west of Turin. Right next to it is the Mont-Cenis railway tunnel, dug in 1871. But the line has been cut for more than a year, following a landslide in August 2023 in the valley of the Bow. It will not be returned to service until spring 2025.
This shows that it is not easy to connect Geneva to the Turin-Milan region. It is therefore not without reason that those involved in the City of Calvin are closely following the progress of the construction work on the Mont-Cenis base railway tunnel. This double pipeline of 57.5 kilometers will connect Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne to Susa, at an altitude of 500 meters, in principle from 2033.
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