Out of our lives

The director of Rodalies Catalunya, Òscar Playà, comes out and explains that the problem is the train drivers'. Many thanks for the information, but do you know what happens? That when it is not the train drivers, it is a catenary, and when it is not a catenary, it is copper cable theft, or an excavator contracted by Adif that sinks. The problems that prevent giving Rodalies the service it is entrusted with are always Rodalies' problems. You cannot say that thing about “it is theirs”. And if not, try this: go to the passengers whose lives you have been wrecking for years and specify to them that it is not quite your responsibility. And what do you explain to them, the issue is that the train does not arrive on time.

With Renfe and Adif in Catalonia, there is nothing to be done. They have had all the years in the world to prove that things can improve and they do not improve. What use will it be to buy new trains and improve the tracks and stations if they remain in the same hands that have shown no interest in providing good service to the users? What use will it have been to create Rodalies-Catalunya if 50.1% remains in the same hands of Renfe? If, as they explain in business schools, to obtain different results you must do different things, it is time to stop working with these two companies. The economic losses for Catalan workers and companies are substantial, not to mention the physical and mental health of the workers. The null service of Rodalies makes the highways and motorways jam-packed. But beyond the figures, now it is a matter of dignity as a society that they leave, because those who have wrecked the service cannot be part of the future of the service.