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Corridors are considered as well as objects or concept. This paper proposes to think about it from an actors-based approach by dealing with organizational motivations. There are no evident corridors. “Corridor” is a political and reticular layout characterized by a high degree of connectivity of a system. Thinking about corridors needs analyses which are focalized on corridor-making process in order to evaluate the role of actors. Based on analyses of the Swiss railway Alpine crossing system, this paper aims to show how a “corridor” can be characterized by the connectivity and not by a concentration process. Dialectic between reticularization of the system and axialization of the services is not paradoxical as operators are making theirs properties of the system in a context of liberalization. Corridor-making is another way of network-making from a dialectic between reticularity and nodality.