About Carris. The railroad in Portugal is giving way | Public Podcasts
The railroad in Portugal it’s giving a hole. Delays in the execution of works, prolonged closures or increased travel time between Lisbon and Porto were no longer enough, now there are discounts on the insured platform in intervened sections or in the construction phase.
The passenger waits and despairs without knowing what is going on. And there is no one to take responsibility.
Where is an auditorium for Ferrovia 2020?
Are these not too many mistakes when we already know that trains in Beira Alta will be memories of the past until at least this November, 10 months after the initially scheduled date for reopening?
From Sines comes the news that operators did not want to receive: freight trains have to pay tolls, but, at least for now, trucks are fine without it. This is the country that says that railroads are a priority, but that it cannot stop favoring road transport.
And on the part of the train drivers union, a position: contest the filing of the Soure accident that killed the two occupants of a catenary conservation vehicle on July 31, 2020.
We apologize in Latin: mors omnia solvit — “death dissolves everything” — even the guilt faced by those who may have had them for not having read the signs correctly. But, if the dead are not to blame and are not here to defend themselves, the living do not leave with clean hands for continuing to ignore recommendations that appear in report after report. Words carry with the wind, words full of promises spoken after each incident, but the recommendations are written on carbon paper in each report by the Office for the Prevention and Investigation of Accidents with Aircraft and Railway Accidents (GPIAAF) and remains to be verified because they are not interrupted.
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