After a ‘black’ weekend For Renfe, today the company has vindicated itself – in the mouth of its general business director – ensuring that Spain has “a spectacular railway system” and that the public company does not deserve the discredit to which it has been subjected in recent days.
He was referring to the outrage caused by the derailment of a train this past weekend in the tunnel that connects the Madrid stations of Chamartín and Atocha, an accident that later emerged could have ended much worse if it were not for the actions of a employee, which paralyzed traffic between Chamartín and Levante and affected nearly 20,000 users.
In a conference in ‘El Economista’ about the railway, Óscar Gómez pointed out that “many European countries would like to have the punctuality levels of 92.7% that there are in Spain.” «Renfe does not suspend circulation when these things happen, we have the capabilities and resources to take everyone home, like last Saturday, when we put additional medium-distance and commuter trains, taxis and even hotels to serve everyone. world,” he added.
In addition to this, and according to ‘The Economist’, The manager added that «it is true that we are suffering from complex situations. As operators, we would have liked to have had infrastructure that was organized and available at the time. And we would have liked the investment effort in rolling stock to have been anticipated with sufficient time and surely many of the things we are experiencing would not happen.
«The train is experiencing the best moment in its history»
These statements are added to those already made by Minister Óscar Puente at the end of a summer marked by numerous incidents, some very high-profile, and the continuous collapses in Chamartín, when he assured that “there has never been a better railway service than the one provided in Spain at this moment.
The CEO of Iryo, Simone Gorini, and the general director of Ouigo SpainHelene Valenzuela, who have agreed on the analysis carried out by the Ministry and the public company and have defended the “very positive” moment that the railway sector is experiencing in Spain. Fernando Vizoso, for his part, partner at KPMG, has supported the general favorable opinion although he has pointed out that there are certain bottlenecks in the infrastructure of some stations that must be resolved.
The fact that Ouigo and Iryo support the Ministry’s opinion on the state of the railway business in Spain is not minor, since for some time the liberalization of the sector and the companies that have participated in it have been the object of the minister’s criticism. The most attacked has been the French company Ouigo, whom Puente has accused on more than one occasion of doing price dumping and unfair competition to Renfe.
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