The new timetable increases the time it takes to travel between Geneva and Lausanne and removes trains between bienne and Geneva.
Also, the IR90 that does Geneva to Wallis still has the very old wagons. Something you would never see in Zurich
I am really starting to think that Suisses romands really like to pay more and get less
https://www.tdg.ch/nouveaux-horaires-cff-ce-qui-change-pour-geneve-589611483826
Posted by cyrilp21
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It’s very easy. The infrastructure has reached both capacity and end of life in many places. It is not possible to mantain the lines without reducing the capacity. On top of that, in the last and next years a lot of new infrastructure projects are being built all across Switzerland: this means that the maintenance costs will further increase in the future because of the increased assets. Unfortunately the financing of maintenance is not politically “sexy”. The politicians will always prefer to say: “look at this new fancy connection/station/tunnel/whatsoever I made SBB build!” instead of saying “thanks to our financing the SBB infrastructure is resilient, efficient and safe. Nothing new to report, all runs smooth”.
Edited: grammar
Currently, Romandie is stuck with infrastructure behind, which means nearly every major station needs to be renovated. Fribourg is in work, Lausanne had so many issues they need to do an update to their orignal plans to count for the situation in 10+ years.