The Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, Raquel Sanchez, has announced this Friday the implementation of an immediate action plan to improve the Rodalies service in Catalonia.
In a conference at the Cercle d’Economy, the minister said that the Government is aware of the importance of Rodalies in the quality of life of its users.
Therefore, it has announced the launch of this crash plan, which It will be deployed from this month of November until the summer of 2022 and that includes important “improvements” for users, their safety or the care they receive.
Sánchez has specified that code readers will be installed in the access shifts in 66 stations and will be awarded “before the end of the year” the comprehensive renovation and award of elevators and mechanical ladders to Rubí, Sant Cugat, Las Franqueses, Granollers Nord, Mongat, Mongat Nord and Pineda de Mar. They also want to promote the use of bicycles to the stations and the renewal of catenaries and infrastructures in various sections of tracks, such as between Maçanet and Caldes de Malavella, double the R3 between Parets and La Garriga, and put Sant Andreu Comtal into service.
As for the trains, the aim is “to advance in on-board digitization with new sales equipment, commercial information and timetables in real time.” To strengthen security, you want to install an intelligent image management system.
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To questions from the president of Cercle, Javier Faus, Sánchez has also said that the expansion of the El Prat airport is not abandoning the project but that “it cannot move forward” without the support of the Government.
Faus has asked that “they do not throw in the towel” and that they “return to the dialogue table whenever, when the moment is right” but before the negotiation of Aena’s new investment plan. “We cannot wait five years. Civil society would not understand if they did not speak again until five years from now,” he insisted.
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