A colossal 'déjà-vu'

March 23, 2007, Verges (Baix Empordà), hours before Lluís Llach's first farewell concert. In the middle of an interview, the news breaks: all commuter rail lines in the country are at a standstill, and there are also trains stopped and delays affecting medium- and long-distance train services. The reason: a computer system failure at Adif has affected the Centralized Traffic Control in Barcelona, ​​located at França Station. It's very similar to what happened yesterday, but almost nineteen years later.

Since then, things have gone from bad to worse. That's why the newly formed Rodalies de Catalunya public-private partnership makes less and less sense with each passing day. It's obvious that the two companies responsible for the chaos, Renfe and Adif, cannot be part of the new company that is supposed to pull Catalonia out of the railway chaos, because we will continue to be tied hand and foot, exposed to their corporate interests, just like the train drivers. To achieve different results, different things need to be done, such as making Cercanías a service of the Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat (Catalan Railways). For Minister Puente to say that Renfe (Spanish National Railway Network) cannot "piece up" (as they like to use that word when it suits them) the service "that interconnects us" is a bad joke. Connects us to what, Minister? To the theft of lives from hundreds of thousands of people and to the economic misery of the country.

Finally, the precedent of Ribarroja transformed into Orilla Roja and the existence of Santo Sadurní In a press release from the Spanish socialist government in 2026, we should go back a little further: to April 1, 1939, specifically.