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The train was new (2022) and passed revision two weeks ago. The tracks were renovated last year. Both trains were going below speed limit.
There are reports that the previous train already hit some bump on the route there. My guess is they fucked up the track renovation. Hopefully this will be the end of this transportation minister and of the whole government soon after that.
The next government is going to be far-right like in the rest of europe so good luck if you think that's going to improve anything.
Yyep. The Nazi gambit.
Just a little nationalist fascism to get the economy going.
Voters seem to always think “well, unlike the last hundred times, it might be alright this time?”
The next government will not be far-right. Vox is not going to win. It will most probably be in the coalition but we will see how much influence it will have over the policy. At this point this result is pretty much inevitable. PSOE had too many corruption scandals and mismanaged too many things like the infrastructure (as we can see). It's amazing it lasted as long it did with its dependency on separatist parties and deals undermining democracy. They are doing good on economy and I applaud them for standing up for Palestine (it's great not having to be ashamed of your government) but I think it's time for them to go. It's hard to tell what PP-Vox government will look like. Everyone was afraid of Meloni and she's doing fine. My hope is that PP will not fuck up the economy but will improve infrastructure. I don't think they will do much on social issues, they tried already in the past and failed. We'll see, I will follow next elections closely and decide were to cast my vote. I don't think it will be PSOE though, probably Sumar or PP.
Tell us you vote V🤮x without telling you vote V🤮x.
I never voted for Vox and never will so shut up.
PP it is, then. Same shit, different color.
Typical for Podemos voter to say. Too buried in all the identity politics issues to see what's going on in real world.
Not even the experts know yet WTF has happened and you are asking for the whole government to do EXACTLY what the PP and V🤮x say... but the problem is "the mindset of the typical Podemos voter" (whatever it is).
Do you really think the rest of the people is stupid?
I don't know what you're talking about. Is there some language barrier here?
I'm not asking the whole government to do anything. I'm saying they terribly mismanaged some things and it's time for them to go. Not because of this one accident but because of all the issues Renfe had in recent years, because of the energy grid issues and because of how they fucked up car charging infrastructure. And they will go after the next elections. The did some good things, it will be a shame that lose some momentum on worker rights and environmental issues but I don't think it's enough to ignore their corruptions and incompetence in other areas.
I'm also not saying anything of this is because of Podemos voters. I'm saying it's your problem. If you think PP and Vox is the same you simply don't know that much about politics and probably vote based on some propaganda and/or emotions.
And PP WAS different (but not that much) from V 🤮x before. But today Ayuso is moving the party toward the far right with little push back from Feijoo. Remember: Aznar came from Falange, not the center-right and about Rajoy, I'll just say one thing: Caso Reace.
About the Renfe problems... just one thing: I live in Extremadura 🤷
And what the government is supposed to do is to REGULATED those companies. It's supposed to have a energy policy that will not destabilize and collapse the grid. If it pushes green energy it should also invest in proper energy grid that can handle it.
Same for car charging infrastructure. They let private companies do whatever the want while subsidizing them with public money. Now I have to use private chargers using private apps that require all personal data. Chargers that were build using money from my taxes. The government ignored the whole thing for years and is only now building first public charging stations. This is all coming years later than mandated by EU. So they are supposedly pushing sustainable transportation but in reality they just gave bunch of money to private companies creating the worst system possible.
And it's the same with Renfe. They pushed public transport while mismanaging the infrastructure. They spend bunch of money connecting smaller town and increasing numbers of passengers pushing the tracks beyond its limit.
So they have good ideas, I like the direction they want to take us but they are terrible executing at managing things. It's Podemos releasing rapists from prisons by mistake but on national scale.
Still, it's not that I strongly oppose PSOE. I more tired of their bullshit and I think a change will not be that bad. Maybe it will give them chance to change leadership, reorganize, unite on the left... Having Vox in the ruling coalition will suck but things can't continue the way they are now.
Thanks for the info. How might culpability go back to the transport minister and the whole government? Did they create track company Adif? Did they refuse to reform it?
Adif is state-owned.
I know, but surely the Adif chief gets fired first? The minister only goes if this keeps happening, or they appointed a bad chief despite being warned, or they cut the budget, or some similar thing they did.
The minister is accountable for their department’s responsibility
After a point. More than double this die on Spain's roads each month and transport ministers aren't fired. Not even the Director-General for Roads gets fired for that. So I'm not seeing why anyone expects the Minister for Transport to be toast over this.