Portugal and Spain Rule Out Regauging Their Railways to Europe's Standard, Judging a €30 Billion Switch Barely Worth the Cost
Lisbon and Madrid have told the European Commission they will not convert their railways from the wide Iberian gauge to Europe's standard, calling a switch that Spain prices at some €30 billion and 30 years of works economically unjustifiable. The new Lisbon–Porto and Lisbon–Madrid high-speed lines
