Rail manager ProRail says it needs a lot of money to improve the railways and thus keep the Netherlands accessible in the future. In a letter to informateur Mariëtte Hamer, billions to tens of billions of euros extra are being asked for the railways, ProRail boss John Voppen told AD. Which

[responsivevoice_button voice="Dutch Female" buttontext="read aloud"] It all started so beautifully. 2020, a new decade, with an economy running at top speed. But it only took one cabinet press conference to bring everything to a halt. Whether that is also bad for innovation in the sector, however, remains to be seen

The government mainly invests in dirty forms of transport such as cars and trucks. 60% of all government investment, more than 11 billion euros, goes to roads, only 21% goes to rail. In 2019, transport is responsible for 21 percent of CO2 emissions. This is evident from the research report On the way to clean?