The coordinator of the Suburban Plan de Catalunya, Pere Macias, explained this Friday that the works for next summer they will affect at least half of the half dozen lines they manage, and has predicted a “complicated” summer.
In an interview on TV3 collected by Europa Press, he has advanced that in summer the work on the Sant Andreu Comtal station, and that from 2022 users will begin to see works “in a general way” to get forward investments, which he believes are running at a good pace.
As explained, so far 600 million have been put out to tender to improve the service, with projects such as the splitting of R3 between Parets and La Garriga (Barcelona); By 2025 they foresee that the infrastructure that should allow increase the number of trains circulating on R3, he explained.
Suburban transfer
Given the differences between the Government and the Generalitat on the limits of the transfer of Rodalies, he has refused to enter into controversies and has stressed that the responsibility for the service belongs to everyone, because the competences are crossed: “We cannot turn suburbs into a battlefield “.
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Regarding the vice-president of the Generalitat and ‘minister’ of Digital Policies and Territories, Jordi Puigneró, has affirmed that with the transfer of Rodalies he has shown “very ambitious, and this ambition must be married with a prudence to learn to do things”.
However, he stressed that “the Generalitat is competent, it can entrust it to whoever it believes: a Renfe, FGC or a third company “, and has demanded to transfer resources to the Government so that it can guarantee a good service from Rodalies, which claims to be addressed in the negotiation on the PGE.
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