Systra wins France’s biggest high-speed rail project - Global Construction Review
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French engineer Systra has won a nine-year contract on France’s biggest high-speed rail project: a 400km-long, Y-shaped line running south from Bordeaux and splitting to go southwest to the town of Dax and southeast to Toulouse.

The €14bn first phase of the “Grand Projet Ferroviaire du Sud-Ouest” (GPSO) extends the Tours-Bordeaux high-speed route that opened in 2017.

By 2032, when it’s scheduled to be operating, the GPSO will cut travel times between the major cities in France’s southwest amid population growth in the Occitanie and Nouvelle-Aquitaine regions.

It’ll cut an hour off the 4h10 trip from Paris to Toulouse, and nearly an hour off the 2h01 journey between Bordeaux and Toulouse.