“It is necessary to elaborate a real strategy of the railway infrastructure, a strategy that should define the future of railway transport in Romania, based on the financing possibilities available at national level, on the European funds to be allocated to railways and on the administrative and institutional capacity. Keeping in mind that CFR SA manages a huge patrimony, we cannot talk about the elaboration of a short-term strategy, but about a long-term strategy, maybe until 2050.
The fundamental objective of this strategy has to be that of ensuring a sustainable, economically efficient, flexible, environmental favourable, safe and balanced rail network that would integrate to the other transport modes and that would be compatible with the European union’s railway transport legislation”, declared Mariana Ioniţă, Strategy Director, CFR SA, at the Railway Days – Wider Black Sea Area Railway Investment Summit, organised by Club Feroviar and AIF.
Also, Mariana Ioniţă said that currently we should not focus on developing the network, but on upgrading and maintaining the existing infrastructure. This requires the increase of the maintenance and full track maintenance budget, the rehabilitation of the line to reach the design speed and the electrification and doubling of the railways.
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