Geneva, Switzerland (Le Temps, Fre) – Geneva Tuesday presented details including likely routes and timetables, for an RER urban transport plan that is designed to greatly reduce automobile traffic in the greater Geneva area in Switzerland and France. The new project was signed by French, Geneva and Vaud authorities in March 2008 and will link by train a stretch from Coppet in Vaud to Annecy in France.

The area today has a population of a million, but it is rapidly growing, as are concerns about the 500,000 daily car trips in the Lake Geneva region that stretches to Lausanne. The Ceva part of the project, linking Cornavin, Eaux-Vives and Annecy stations, is expected to be operating by 2014 and the rest of the system by 2016. Le Temps provides a chart showing the lines, with one obvious shortcoming: the Geneva and Lausanne RER systems will both be operating fully by 2020, but they leave a gap between Allaman and Coppet, with no public transport system improvements planned for that stretch.

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