Sunday, 07 February 2010

AVE, social cost benefit

two months ago made headlines the opening of the Madrid-Barcelona after an unfortunate chain of events in the construction of its final stretch from Bellvitge to Sants Station. He has boasted of a high occupancy of the line in the early stages of life, and no doubt that this occupation will grow. However, it is important to put that as the current occupancy of 70 (a figure that stood Renfe economic profitability of the line) almost 60 is made up of executives. The infrastructure today has cost some 12,000 million (8,000 million paid with public money). These figures call attention to a comparison of 9,000 users who travel on AVE every day at present, with 400,000 users as they do in local trains in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, where infrastructure has hardly been invested since 1992, generating a commuter rail system fragile, met with disgust by users.In short, we should ask if it was a priority to sanitation suburban network rather than a great adventure in railway progress, promoted by European subsidies succulent, so much benefit out of the population, which in many cases no another efficient transport system to their place of work, with which it does have, however, executives who travel on the AVE line, as the plane. Hopefully a boom in social and vindication of the government of the basic rights of citizens, often camouflaged by the routine, such as public transport, and building has been decided to promote the train as a means of sustainable transport , decided to improve the service near Barcelona. Only then the AVE should become a priority.

Feb 7, 2010 5:20:04 AM

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