Madrid (EFE) Cercanías trains that do not fit in the tunnels of Cantabria and Asturias.
To do this, what we are doing is ordering an audit from both Renfe and Adif, to find out what has happened, Sánchez explained in plenary session of Congress, in response to the people’s deputy Alicia García, who has accused the minister of being “unable to recover the railway frequencies prior to the pandemic, but capable of hiring trains that do not fit through the tunnels.”
The Renfe metric gauge fleet renewal project is financed with European funds, whose completion commitment is December 31, 2024, and the deadline will not be met, with the risk of losing funding and delays Garcia warned.
The minister recalled that, during these days, she has given the explanations, has assumed responsibility and is “the first angry and outraged with this situation, this error that has occurred.”
After the “heat”, what is called for is precisely to apologize, face up and clear up responsibilities, and make all the resources available to the citizens so that the redesign of the trains that have to be carried out occurs as soon as possible, has indicated.
“This case can obviously serve them to attack the Government, generating social unrest,” Sánchez has indicated to insist that the ministry recognizes the error and will use all means to correct it.
The trains, the infrastructures and the investments are going to reach the Cantabrians and Asturians because this Government, despite the errors, “tries to correct the problems that in most cases it has inherited due to a disastrous management of the Popular Party government”. , has underlined.
“This would never have happened to you because, during your years in government, you did not buy a single train for the Cercanías network,” he added. EFE