With Swiss rail transport facing some difficult challenges over the next 20 years, regional editor Anitra Green reports from Suissetraffic 2009 where the country’s leading transport figures gathered to discuss the future of the nation’s transport network.

 

Last month one of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs made his biggest ever acquisition by purchasing all remaining shares in North America’s second-largest railway. Keith Barrow looks at how Warren Buffett’s high-stakes wager on BNSF has sent ripples through Wall Street.

 

The European Commission says 21 European Union member states have still not fully adopted key legislation on liberalisation, years after it was due to be implemented. Keith Barrow examines the obstacles blocking the First Railway Package.

 

Andy Kunz, president of the US High Speed Rail Association, explains to David Briginshaw why he wants US politicians to stop playing around with ideas for modest speed increases and be bold by building a fully-fledged 27,000km high-speed rail network over the next 20 years.