In response to a pertinent question from Jéssica Albiach (Comuns) to Salvador Illa about the hell of the AP-7, during the control session of the Government, the president distributed responsibilities by saying that it was necessary to "reflect on what we said light-heartedly and see what is happening now", and that "perhaps we were wrong" with the elimination of tolls.
I don't remember anyone saying anything "light-heartedly". Rather, everything that has been said about tolls in Catalonia has been said "angrily" and with good reason. The civil disobedience campaign "I don't want to pay" ended up being the dignified response of a country (individuals and businesses) that had been paying tolls for decades while seeing that the State was building and maintaining motorways for its neighbours at the expense of everyone's taxes. In other words, Catalans were directly paying for our own motorways and, indirectly, for those of others.
And when it comes to assigning responsibilities for the truck trafficand the speeds and abruptness with which it travels on the AP-7, it would also be appropriate to assign responsibilities to the State and remember that if the Mediterranean railway corridor had been in operation for 20 years, which is what would be expected, we would have saved deaths, accidents, and millions of lost hours of life due to brutal saturation of goods because they would not have to be transported by road. The Mediterranean, from Andalusia to Catalonia, passing through Murcia and the Valencian Community, produces almost half of Spain's GDP, and the Mediterranean Corridor (as the World Bank explained to Franco's Spain 67 years ago) is the natural export route to Europe for all this wealth. Of course, the AVE can take you today from Madrid to: Malaga, Murcia, Alicante, Valencia, Castellón, and the four provincial capitals of Catalonia. And needless to say, it will take you there happily.
