Illa acknowledges that Rodalies “is not working” but promises that improvements will be noticed in the coming weeks – Pledge Times

The president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, has opened this Tuesday the monographic plenary session on Rodalies admitting that the service does not work but that the Govern will not “hide his head under the wing” in front of the endless chain of incidents in the network. Persecuted by the opposition, the Executive accepted the debate of the first great crisis of his mandate and has not hesitated to undress a system full of dysfunctions. The…

Opposition in the Parliament demands responsibility from the Govern for repeated incidents in the vicinity trains

The transfer of the Cercanías railway network, in Catalonia called Rodalies, to the Generalitat is one of the commitments made by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, with his parliamentary partners from Junts. In preparation for this transfer, which is facing more difficulties than originally expected, the Executive has made significant investments in recent years to update an infrastructure that showed alarming signs of deterioratio…

Illa acknowledges that Rodalies “is not working” but promises that improvements will be noticed in the coming weeks – Pledge Times

“Rodalies is not working and in the Government we cannot hide.” Thus, Salvador Illa has sung the ‘mea guilt’ about the frequent incidents in the rail service. He has done so during the monographic debate that took place this Tuesday at the Parliament of Catalonia, forced by the opposition. The president has not tried to hide a situation that has “serious deficiencies”, but has struggled to be trusting that the problems have a solution that, alth…

The debate in Parliament comes amid a new cascade of incidents, while the government acknowledges the inefficiency of the service and defends itself by saying that, now, it is investing, with a plan that recovers many measures that were already planned in 2009.

Junts per Catalunya has defended in the monographic debate on Rodalies in Parliament that what is needed is to "get Renfe out of Catalonia". This was stated this Tuesday by the deputy Salvador Vergés,...