Adif and Renfe announce extra private to evaluation the tracks and serve passengers after every week of rail chaos in Catalonia | News from Catalonia | EUROtoday

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There are massive railroad works in Catalonia and the incidents within the Rodalies service won’t finish in a single day. To do that, after a deadly week within the service, Renfe, Adif and the Government have gathered this Sunday at midday and have agreed to a doc with ten factors that embody extra Adif workers reviewing the services and the evening tracks, extra Renfe workers to react to contingencies and inform the passengers and attend to the citizenship, and a technical workplace of coordination. “It is about seeing how we can attend the incidents in the best way, with the maximum clarity and attention to exquisite users, because they have been suffering a poor service in Rodalies for many years,” admitted the counselor Sílvia Paneque this Sunday on the Sants station in Barcelona. “The images of trains full of unemployed people are not acceptable,” he stated.

The counselor convened the assembly urgently on Saturday afternoon, after a disastrous week for Rodalies, and with excessive velocity additionally failing. When it appeared that nothing else might occur, on the final minute it sank a part of the roof of the corridor that joins the El Prat station with the airport services. On the a part of the Generalitat, the Generalitat Secretary of the Generalitat, Manel Nadal, the Secretary General of the Ministry, Jordi Terradas, and Pere Macias, commissioned for the switch of Rodalies have participated within the assembly. Until the Sants station, the president of Adif, Luis Pedro Marco de la Peña, has additionally moved. And Telematically, the Secretary of State for Transportation, José Antonio Santano, and the president of Renfe, Álvaro Fernández.

To enhance the administration of the works, whether or not they’re massive or small, the counselor defined that within the tuning of the infrastructure “it is possible that white marches be extended,” with trains circulating with out passengers. “To do evidence without passengers we could have detected problems,” he stated in relation to what occurred with the Roda Macrocort de Berà. On the Technical Office, he stated that he should permit all brokers to work “in a coordinated manner, to monitor prior to the works, during and in the implementation”. The workplace shall be in Barcelona and seeks that any funding or enchancment of the community that has an impression on the consumer is communicated to territory in order that the minimal incidents could be discovered.

Political controversy

This similar Sunday morning, the president of ERC, Oriol Junqueras, has defended that these liable for the companies of Renfe and Adif ought to resign “but are able to do their job”, after the railway incidents of latest days. Junqueras has proven his concern and outrage at “the catastrophic functioning of trains.” The ERC chief has described it as an issue of “dignity” of the service and has assured that customers don’t deserve a remedy just like the one which the central authorities provides by means of public corporations. After being requested concerning the state’s switch of the State to the Generalitat and who will then blame for the incidents within the service, Junqueras has pressured that “the proof that the trains of Catalonia can work well” is that the Railways of the Generalitat (FGC) are “specimens.”

The phrases of the republicans are added to the requests for look within the Parliament of his personal social gathering and the commons, or the calls for of Juns explanations, who declare that it’s the Ministry of Transportation who provides them.

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