Passenger Traffic
The heavy investments in the rail infrastructure beginning in the early to mid-1990s made train travel more appealing, especially given the ever-increasing road congestion, and consequently passenger use began rising rapidly—by a factor of about fivefold over any given ten-year span during the 1990s and 2000s. With several large-scale railway infrastructure projects still underway and more planned in the future, the growth in passenger numbers is expected to continue.
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