Klaas Knot's Advice: the Cabinet Must Save to Make the Lelylijn Possible

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If the government honors a "traditional Dutch virtue" and sets aside €400 million annually for 25 years, construction of the high-speed train connection between the Randstad and the Northern Netherlands could begin now. This is the advice of Klaas Knot, former president of De Nederlandsche Bank and special envoy for the Lelylijn.

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The Lelylijn is missing from the coalition agreement between D66, CDA, and VVD, but Groningen's King's Commissioner, René Paas, sees plenty of potential in it to be hopeful about the multi-billion dollar project. "The new cabinet wants to invest in priority infrastructure that contributes to housing construction, accessibility, and economic development. These are serious grounds for discussing the Lelylijn," Paas said at a conference in The Hagu…