Brussels, 11/04/2002 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday a Eurostat study on EU transport infrastructure revealed that the length of the motorway network in the EU grew by more than 25% between 1990 and 1999 to total nearly 50 000 km in 1999. As for the length of the rail network, it contracted by 4% in the 1990s and by 1999 was just under 154 000 km. This situation is in contradiction with the aims of Member States.
Eurostat explained that this expansion in motorways is especially due to...