In the usual lottery, the jackpot fell on Friday in Bellvitge, where the passengers of a train were stopped for more than an hour inside a convoy – which gave rise to phrases such as "we had to open the doors to breathe" – and had to end up jumping a considerable distance to the ground and walking. A half-hour journey was made in three. And so it goes every day, "asking yourself what risk you will take today and how you will get to work the next day."
This Friday the electricity supply failed, but there are days when a catenary catches fire, other days when stones fall on the track, when copper is stolen from an installation, when a traffic light fails, when the drivers go on strike more or less covertly or when the works are not yet sufficiently completed and worse. The Government states that it will still take two years to notice the improvements, which gives an idea of how badly the State's railway treatment in Catalonia must have been. And, therefore, President Illa's excuses to users are very good, but if he does not want to spend every day of his mandate apologising, he had better start training the casting vote of Cercanías Cataluña and work so that the Spanish government, through Renfe and Adif, directly compensates people and companies for the damage it is causing them and gets to the bottom of it.
To pretend that the Catalan economy can lead anything if a service as basic as the trains do not work is a joke. The first obligation of the president of a country is to protect its people, and Catalans live unprotected when they use the Cercanías to the point of humiliation.
