Santander (EFE).- The Minister of Industry and Transport, Javier López Marcano, has assured that the Government of Cantabria is going to maintain a “vindictive” speech so that the deliveries of commuter trains are not made in batches, but rather make units and allocate them to each community.
This has been pointed out by López Marcano in statements prior to a meeting of the working group on the railway network in Cantabria, which was also attended by the counselor José Luis Gochicoa, head of the Cantabrian Executive in terms of Mobility, and representatives of Renfe and Adif .
“It is good that the width is talked about, but it is good that the terms are minimized, that there are compensations and that the details of the current contract are resolved,” insisted the Minister of Transport.
And he has advocated for there to be “clarity and transparency” in relations between administrations.
López Marcano has assured that the meeting of the working group on the railway network, which is being held this Wednesday, is “very necessary”.
Even so, the counselor has stated that this meeting was also “desired” by the Cantabrian Government, since there are many issues that require this type of meeting, where he recalled that there are “many voices and opinions”.
The counselor that at the end of the meeting a “common” speech can be articulated that serves as support for the meeting of the Cantabrian and Asturian presidents, Miguel Ángel Revilla and Adrián Barbón, with the minister Raquel Sánchez, on the 20th, although he also believes that support is not necessary.
“We recognize what is being done, it is a time in which there are many advances in long distance or in the AVE, but we have many shortcomings”, considered López Marcano.
Revilla sees “incomprehensible” what happened to the trains
The president of Cantabria, Miguel Ángel Revilla, hopes that in the meeting this coming Monday with the Minister of Transport, Raquel Sánchez, they will explain what happened with the award of commuter trains for the region, something that he considers “incomprehensible”.
Revilla thus spoke at a meeting of political leaders and representatives of the judicial bodies of Cantabria, Navarra, the Basque Country and Aragon, in which he concluded his inaugural speech by announcing that he was going to receive a French public television team today to “try to explain why in Spain trains are awarded that do not enter through the tunnels”.
The Cantabrian president has criticized, not only that the award was made “without measuring the trains or the tunnels”, but, as he added, “for two years and a bit they knew it, and they have not said anything”. “I suppose that, of course, one would say to the other: you go out, you don’t go out, it makes me laugh,” he joked.
And he stressed that it was CAF, the company awarded the construction of the trains, which went to measure the tunnels. “If we hadn’t we would have found trains to teach”, Miguel Ángel Revilla concluded.