The lousy commuter rail service in Barcelona, a conscientious result of decades of lack of investment, is the main striker of Pere Aragones against the central government and the PSOE. The everlasting chaos has been used by Republicans as glaring example of socialist incompetence. “They only manage one thing in Catalonia and look how it goes,” he said oriol junqueras and Aragones himself.
If these criticisms worsened in the pre-campaign and municipal campaign, especially in the metropolitan area where the PSC sweeps, and swept again, it was logical that they would be used again, but this time as an element of pressure in the negotiation for the investiture of Pedro Sanchez. In republican thought it is established that Goddess Fortune should not be counted on much when it comes to basting such an attack. Renfe always offers multiple windows of opportunity. And so it has been.
“Management Inability”
Aragonès has published this Thursday in X a thread of messages in which, temperate center of the ‘councilor’ of Territori, Ester Capella, the ‘president’ asserts that “again, Spain disrespects users of Rodales. Again, a breakdown that shows the lack of investment and the inability to manage the network in Catalonia. It’s incomprehensible. Transfer is a must. There are no more excuses.”
Capella, after the usual railway chaos was fueled today by a breakdown at the Adif facilities in Barcelona, had published one of those statistics that It’s been years since they have ceased to scandalize. “Of the 24 days that we have been in the month of August, in 23 there have been incidents in Rodalies” Today with a massive affectation on the lines R1, R2, R2 Nord, R3 and R4. The incidents of Cercanías are constant due to a manifest will of the State Government not to invest what was committed”.
From now on, the Spanish state lacks rodalies users in this regard. Of new, an error that demonstrates the lack of investment and the inability to manage that the xarxa have in Catalonia. It’s incomprehensible. The transfer is a necessity. There are no excuses. https://t.co/qrUZQ0dwOT
— Pere Aragones i Garcia 🎗 (@perearagones) August 24, 2023
Demand for explanations
In the other two messages on the social network, the ‘president’ asserted, after noting that his Executive was at the “disposal of those affected”, that had asked Capella to demand “immediate explanations” to Renfe, Adif and the Government.
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In addition – he concluded – he said that he will take “the necessary measures in the face of the permanent mess. And we will continue demanding arm’s length to manage commuter rail transport. The citizenship is fed up of a second-rate service.
It should be remembered that the transfer of the commuter service is one of the three points that ERC demands to support the investiture of Pedro Sánchez, along with ending the fiscal deficit and unfreezing the dialogue table.