Tours–Bordeaux high-speed line worth €7.8bn opens
- Location
- Tours–Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine / Centre-Val de Loire) · 🇫🇷 France
- Project
- LGV Sud Europe Atlantique (Tours–Bordeaux high-speed line)
- Investment
- approx. €7.2 billion planned, adjusted to approx. €7.8 billion
- Status
- Completed / Operational (since 2 July 2017)
The LGV Sud Europe Atlantique is a 302 km high-speed rail line between Tours and Bordeaux (plus 38 km of connector tracks to Poitiers and Angoulême), opened on 2 July 2017. The construction budget was planned at €7.2 billion and adjusted to roughly €7.8 billion; the line is operated by the LISEA concession consortium (led by Vinci, 33.4%) for 50 years. In 2022 Lisea reported around 19.32 million passengers on the line.
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