Do they still hold those daily meetings about the commuter trains "at the highest level" that the Regional Minister for Territory announced less than a month ago, with Adif, Renfe, and the Ministry? What have they solved lately? How many elevators and escalators have been repaired in the last few days? Or is this only being addressed at the lowest level? Are we still stuck with 25% of trains out of order? Why doesn't anyone ever come out with a map explaining where the work is being done, what the next targets are, and when they'll be completed? Or is it that they don't even know? Of course, maybe no one wants to come forward, or maybe they're just being overly reinforced.
With the State trains to Catalonia everyone sees the same thing, whether we are talking about the State itself – which, as that one said,it is far away"– as if we were talking about the unions refusing to transfer power to the Generalitat (thank you for this show of union solidarity with the workers), or the graffiti artists making a killing, or the copper thieves stealing at night. We are witnessing a spectacular theft of commuters' lives and the taxes of Catalonia. The joke about the acronym "Please Push Our Broken Railways" was made, but there is a fundamental difference: in the 1970s, Spain was a developing country and everything was very tight everywhere. Now, however, even… we will have a digital ID.
In the process, the blame falls on the government, which isn't the direct cause of the daily humiliation but is increasingly implicated with each passing day. Mobility is a right. Does neither of the two socialist governments, the Catalan and the Spanish, believe they have the obligation to guarantee it? Because if the answer is yes, it doesn't show anything.
