15.09.2006 - By Tom Pfeiffer
RABAT, Morocco — Work on the Arab world's first high-speed train — stretching from the Mediterranean to the door of the Sahara desert — could begin next year, the head of Morocco's rail company said.
The trains would travel at up to 300 kilometres (186 miles) per hour, slashing times from Tangier in the north via Marrakesh to Agadir in the south, and from Casablanca on the Atlantic to Oujda on the Algerian border.
"Marrakesh to Tangier in two and a half hours — it's as if the country's shrinking," rail operator ONCF's managing director Mohamed Rabie Khlie told Reuters in an interview ... mehr
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