The day before Christmas Eve 2022, the Swedish government quietly released its new direction regarding railway traffic. I interpret the timing as an attempt to fly under the radar, to avoid drawing attention to the news. I must say, that was a smart move, as several planned expansions had suddenly been scrapped or put on hold.
One of the stretches that has been paused and will be replaced by a
"Nyligen presenterade Transportstyrelsen olycksstatistiken för 2022. Det är ingen rolig läsning. Nu är vi tillbaka på samma nivå som innan pandemin och således långt från den Nollvision som den svenska riksdagen beslutade om 1997."
The Swedish Transport Agency recently presented the accident statistics for 2022, and it makes for grim reading. We are now back at the same level as before the pandemic, and thus far from the Vision Zero goal that the Swedish Parliament in adopted in 1997. Last year, 220 people died in traffic accidents. This is 13 more than the average during the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021, when 204 and 210