Comments on: Davos Newbies Home http://www.davosnewbies.com/2001/10/26/davos-newbies-home-34/ A year-round Davos of the mind, written since 1999 by Lance Knobel Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:38:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jerome Camus http://www.davosnewbies.com/2001/10/26/davos-newbies-home-34/comment-page-1/#comment-181 Jerome Camus Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.davosnewbies.com/?p=456#comment-181 What is so extraordinary? Consider the data. Italy has the same population as France, but only about 60% of the territory. Of that territory, 60% is mountainous (The same as Switzerland, France's figure is about 15%); worse yet, some estimations indicate only 30% is conducive to feeding the population. The whole northern rim of Italy are the Alps, thus a dependancy on tunnels under mountains for imp/exp trade (Switzerland has all those valleys & gflat lans in the North that give open direction to Germany & France...). First the Mt. Blanc disaster, now San Gottardo... Major throttle... The good part of all this is that finally governments will push to have rail transit for lorry loads. On a European scale. And for once the Swiss will be 110% behind the initiative. What is so extraordinary? Consider the data. Italy has the same population as France, but only about 60% of the territory. Of that territory, 60% is mountainous (The same as Switzerland, France’s figure is about 15%); worse yet, some estimations indicate only 30% is conducive to feeding the population. The whole northern rim of Italy are the Alps, thus a dependancy on tunnels under mountains for imp/exp trade (Switzerland has all those valleys & gflat lans in the North that give open direction to Germany & France…).

First the Mt. Blanc disaster, now San Gottardo… Major throttle…

The good part of all this is that finally governments will push to have rail transit for lorry loads. On a European scale. And for once the Swiss will be 110% behind the initiative.

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