A train in which it was impossible to travel with relative comfort. Let’s not say sleep or work. The videos in which an Avant is shown that vibrates extremely in the Lleida-Barcelona line are only the last example of a high speed that does not stop accumulating problems for Renfe.
“The Water of the Váter came out”. This is what A user assured of the Avant Lleida-Barcelona train that circulated with extreme vibrations on August 19. Views the images that can be found on social networks, what Kevin Bruque, spokesman for users Avant Catalunya, is not very far -fetched RAC1.
The violence with which the train moved while in motion has left us publications in which it is observed to backpacks moving violently and Water bottles that remain standing miracle.
Many complaints. It is not the first time that Avant users between Lleida and Barcelona complain bitterly about the conditions of the journey. “People get dizzy” in an hour “that they could take advantage of to rest or work,” Bruque emphasizes.
Extreme vibrations are only the last case of a line that accumulates complaints and demands of users. Already in March, Segre He collected the demands of the passengers who claim a greater number of frequencies and an early early option since the first train leaves at 7:05. They also emphasized the constant delays and breakdowns suffered by the line.
Renfe’s response. Those days, Segre He collected that Renfe’s response to this request for an Avant that leaves before 7:05 points to Rodalies. The company defends that service is also provided with a regional train and that, therefore, the line is already covered.
However, the platform ensures that the service is not comparable since with Rodalies it takes more than three hours to arrive in Barcelona from Lleida while in Avant and Ave they move on the border of the hour. This causes taking the first Rodalies train to arrive even later in Barcelona that with the first fast train of the day.
Rodalies in the spotlight. Renfe’s performance in Catalonia is under the spotlight. In what we have been, Rodalies has not stopped adding breakdowns, suspensions and delays. To the point that the circulation has been suspended up to three times.
In railroads.org They collect the incidents that are added daily in Rodalies. On August 18, six incidents were counted in the network. On August 19 another four and August 20 increased to 17 incidents of all kinds. When we write these lines on August 21, 33 incidents have been counted so far.
But also high speed. In the first week of this August we met the end of a soap opera that had begun in July, that of the Avril trains. Renfe decided to withdraw these trains of its Madrid-Barcelona line when cracks are detected in them.
A few days before, the information had jumped that some of these trains were literally breaking. Renfe threw balls out And he just said that had reorganized the line. Subsequently, Pópuli voice He showed the images where a crack was clearly seen on the train. Renfe had already decided to get these trains out of circulation although at first he opted for circular at a lower speed.
An unforgettable summer for the user. And to forget by Renfe. The company has been in which it has faced a breakdown in the line to Andalusia that left users without air conditioning and in the middle of anywhere For 13 hours. Those same problems, with less serious consequences, They were subsequently repeated. Also in Andalusia the circulation had to be suspended momentarily by Goteras in a Malaga tunnel.
Then came the aforementioned case of cracks in the Avril trains. And finally, fires have stopped circulation between Madrid and Galicia during a week in which Renfe has offered solutions With lights and shadows.
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