Adif, a Spanish infrastructure manager, has filed a complaint in a court in Cerdanyola del Vallés, in Barcelona, due to the cable theft that has been taking place since last Sunday and that seriously affects train services. . Rodalies. The Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Óscar Puente, has reported through the social network
“We have just filed a complaint for the acts of vandalism on Sunday at the Cerdanyola investigative court,” states the message, which also includes some photographs related to the incident. In his appearance, Puente did not rule out that the Catalan railway network had suffered sabotage after denouncing that incidents in the community were “abnormally high”, and revealed his willingness to bring the facts to justice and the Mossos for investigation.
“I do not affirm that there is sabotage, but I cannot rule it out,” added the minister, who was surprised that on Sunday “the Mossos, without having entered the tunnels, already had their conclusion” and rejected that possibility. All this, while problems still persist in the network caused by new incidents such as another cable theft in Lleida, a freight train accident in Tarragona or problems in the power supply of R3.
Regarding the new cable theft, early Tuesday morning between the Riu-Milans stop and Les Borges Blanques, in Lleida, the railway traffic between this Lleida town and Vinaixa had to be cut off until 8:13 a.m. As detailed by Renfe, the incident has affected two trains on lines R13 and R14 with departure between 06:00 and 07:00, although service was able to be restored from 08:00, when Adif technicians managed to repair the fault.
Tarragona has been the scene of another incident after a Medway company freight train ran over a vehicle around 12:30, with a minor injury, and forced traffic between Reus and Alcover to be cut off – which has affected the R14-, which was not restored until 3:00 p.m.
On the other hand, an electrical power problem has forced the circulation of the R3 of Rodalies between Vic (Barcelona) and Ripoll (Girona) to be cut off, which has been able to be supplied with road transport, on which Adif has worked throughout the year. day to solve it.
Special transportation plan for cable theft.
The new setbacks in the network have coincided with the same day that the changes in the special transportation plan initiated by Sunday’s cable theft were implemented, which could take up to two months to be completely resolved. The change contemplates the usual service of R1, R2, R2 (Nord and Sud), R8, RG1, R11 and Regionals Sud, and different effects on R3, R4, R7 and R12.
On the lines whose forecast was normal operation and which have not suffered a new incident, some users have expressed their complaints about the delays in the service despite the apparent normality. s beyond Mataró” (Barcelona) take between 45 minutes and an hour to pass. For her part, the spokesperson for the acting Government, Patrícia Plaja, defended this Tuesday that the latest serious incidents registered in Rodalies are a “direct consequence” of the lack of investment by the state public companies Renfe and Adif.
“Adequate maintenance could have avoided the situation in which the country finds itself today,” lamented the spokesperson in the usual weekly press conference after the meeting of the Consell Executiu. On the other hand, the Minister of Transport responded this Tuesday to a question in the Senate about the chaos in Rodalies, asking the JxCat spokesperson why 52% of vandalism against the railway infrastructure of the entire Spanish network occurs in Catalonia. .
