Every morning it looks like the previous one at the stations of. Resignation, briefcases, coffees, American, helmets, books or glorious heads in impossible positions at 200 kilometers per hour. Find out reports, emails, virtual meetings or see dawn through the window before arriving the office. A classic of every morning multiplied since the government, after the pandemic and with partial support of the autonomous communities, significantly reduced the price of high speed. One of the Valladolid-Segovia-Madrid tour became Spain for thousands of ‘Neomadrileños’ who make this trip for work reasons every day. The freezing of transport aid after this week seriously threatens the pocket of the many users who make this journey every day.
The failure of the legislative package presented this week by the Executive (PSOE and add) and frustrated by the rights of Junts per Catalunya, the PP and Vox harms the citizens that crowds these trains every morning. The promoters of the argumentary initiative that together with public transport aid has also canceled a package of aid for those affected by the Dana de Valencia, the rise in pensions and other measures related to the social shield. The opposition criticizes the inclusion of disparate content in the same package and advocates to negotiate each one individually. This new chapter in the clash between the two main national matches makes the eyebrow lift this morning on the roads of Valladolid to the thousands of aggrieved who trust that the new price, the triple that the previous one is a temporary interruption and Not a definitive burial.
A 50 -trip bonus amounted to 2.80 euros per unit, 140 in total. The 10 routes, to use in 20 days, stayed at 32 euros; 50 If it was consumed in 40 days. Currently, the high demand fills cars and demands quite getting the tickets during peak hours. The consumption of these thousands of bonds, according to Renfe data, has reached during these years of operability almost 25% of the total discount bonds issued for all routes in Spain. Since the bonus was launched at reduced price, Raquel Luis, 51 -year -old Valladolid professor, has been since this measure took advantage of it to move daily to Segovia at a low price. “The fault is from politicians, I don’t care the sign, they have not thought about the currelas,” criticism, because the 50 -trip bonus for 96 euros now rises to 365.
The State suffered until this week half of the price., Despite the negative vote of its deputies in Congress. Now it will cost the triple that would be four times higher without autonomous support. “It is a fog, it is not normal, for the sake of the parties they will have to do something because if not the citizens are thrown on them,” says Luis, witness to the collapse of Renfe’s website when the vote is known in Congress. Thousands of users from all over Spain, the cloister and she included, hurried to acquire their bonds before the coup. “In the decree there were too many things, going in parts the bonds would have approved,” says the affected, and insists that “the package included pensions or Valencia pensions, those are worse than us, which at least we have work.”
The end of the bonds makes a Renfe machinist based in Valladolid reflect on who is to blame: “Good question… well a little of all. It is a lack of responsibility of the government and the opposition. ” This public employee, who asks for anonymity, highlights that both his partner and several friends took advantage of this measure to continue in the city without the residential dislates of the capital, but maintaining employment there. The lower cost of life in these provinces, combined with partial or complete teleworking, allowed many young people to modify their vital project and return to their city. Carlos Perfect, spokesman for the National Federation of Recurring Users and spokesperson in Castilla y León, reproaches what happened: “It is a torpedo to the economy of families, the democratization of a public service, the necessary fundamental territorial balance in Castilla y León and León and León to the demographic growth achieved especially in the last three years. ” Perfect tilda of “transverse” this promotion of public transport and pray dialogue and agreements before a policy that has demonstrated its “need and success” in a matter that touches the “structure” of the State.
The train arrives in Segovia after 25 minutes of travel. Several users are attached and new ones mounting to Madrid. Students review physics notes or pass their finger on the mobile by looking Instagram. David Martínez, 47, engineer by profession, long gabardina and briefcase, is pessimistic with the return of this subsidy. “I do not think it will return and will end there are less train frequencies,” says this user who takes the railroad between two and three days. Martínez blames the evils to the government for including the reduction “within the same package, trusting that Congress would be approved.”
The tour continues towards Madrid as a metaphor of the political future of the most demanded bonds in Spain. After the darkness of the tunnel is the fog in Madrid. The, time and five minutes later, welcomes the one who breaks into the station while the Marabunta brings together the streets of the capital. Emma Marcos, 30, does the same towards the, where a master’s degree in cultural management. His plan went to look for work in Madrid and use a cheap transport to continue living in Valladolid, now truncated by the parliamentary tortazo. “The fault belongs to politicians. They are always arguing and that harms us. You have to fight for previous prices to return. We cannot go back in the promotion of public transport, ”Marcos protests, annoyed with opposition parties. “In that package there were positive measures that now go to the garet,” he adds. The thirty -year [las elecciones] And they will keep everything. ” “In Valladolid this decision affects many people and, since they will not decentralize Madrid, we need the train even more.” Then he says goodbye to immersing himself among the hundreds of travelers who advance frantically through the station. Unknown faces united by your outrage with the new Renfe prices.
