Five Years of Railway Liberalisation: Cheaper Trains, Tensioned Infrastructures and Fights for Workshops

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Since the liberalisation, the tickets have been reduced by more than 40%, discounted the inflation, but the number of travelers starts to give symptoms of fatigue on key routes, such as the one that unites Madrid and BarcelonaThe strong increase in expenditure for the maintenance of the high speed network goes behind the travelers boom In May 2021 Ouigo began to operate in Spain, the company participated by the French State that opened the doors…

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In the blink of an eye it has been five years since the beginning of the process of liberalisation of the High Speed. The truth is that the arrival of Ouigo and Iryo as competitors of what until then was the monopoly of Renfe has had several direct consequences within the sector; both the fall in the price of some of the most important routes of the high speed trains and the growth of the market have been accompanied by years of red numbers thro…