Karsten Staehr: Rail Baltica – a predictable failure

Rail Baltica was meant to be the railway that carried the Baltic states into the heart of Europe – instead, it has become a warning about what happens when political ambition, optimistic forecasts and megaproject economics meet reality; Karsten Staehr argues that the project’s spiralling costs, repeated delays and shrinking ambitions were not an accident, but a failure hiding in plain sight. Rail Baltica has recently been in the news again, and not in a positive light. The project is behind schedule, significantly over budget and being cut back. The plan to link the Baltic states to the European rail network increasingly appears doomed to failure. Continue reading Karsten Staehr: Rail Baltica – a predictable failure at Estonian World.