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Article: Swiss Plan to Curb Foreign Trucks
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 21, 1994
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ZURICH, Switerzland Swiss voters Sunday approved a proposal to
protect the Alps by banning foreign trucks from crossing the country
by 2004.
The initiative also bans the construction of new roads if they
are intended to increase transit capacity.
It aims to preserve the Alps from pollution by freight trucks
that roar across the country and requires that they be hauled across
Switzerland by rail in 10 years.
About 80 percent of freight crossing Switzerland already
travels by train, either in rail cars or in the trucks loaded onto
rail wagons.
The vote was a slap in the face for the Swiss government's
policy toward Europe, coming in the first test of its push for closer
ties ...