The Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat, FGV company committee, which brings together Metrovalencia, has denounced “the intolerable and shame lack of direction, organization and planning of railways of the Generalitat Valenciana”.
Specifically, in a statement, it has referred in the southern zone to “spoiled level steps, endless orders of specific circulation and driving, failures in safety beacons, unpleasant platforms, heavy machinery working in the stations with travelers, areas without closing direct access to the road from children fee”.
The Company Committee has indicated that “these actions are neither new, nor surprise,” and in their opinion “because of the desire for prominence” of the Headquarters, “the subway and tram lines were put into service, with many deficiencies that affected regularity, failures in communications, teams that did not work, registering more than 2,000 incidents in circulation.”
The situation at the stops of MetroValencia Line 1 on the reopening day was picturesque. Travelers mixed with workers and chiefs.
“This did not care about anything, because thanks to the professionalism of all workers, there was no need to regret any misfortune,” he added. In this sense, the Committee has stressed that “you cannot ‘sell’ an ordinary service in July or the possibility of the night service in August, when Metrovalence is not able to offer an acceptable daily service, since the poor management of the main public transport public company has converted delays, continuous failures and lack of personnel in the different services, in its sign of identity”.
Likewise, the representation of the workers has transferred that they “ashamed” that, while the FGV manager, Alfonso Novo, “boasts of the collaboration and the effort made by the entire staff” for the rapid return to normal “facing the gallery” after the DANA, “of doors inward breach, empty of content our jobs and outsourced services for lack of personnel and training to the coffers of all the Valencians, for the benefit of finger awards, to fill their pockets). ”
“Eight months after the Dana in which colleagues and users were abandoned to their fate, we continued without action protocols against adverse atmospheric phenomena, we would like to know what is the opinion of the Valencian Ferrovian security agency, which was created precisely, for the investigation of incidents/rail accidents,” he denounced. The Company Committee has claimed that “Valencian citizenship deserves a safe, efficient and human public transport, both for those who use it and for those who make it possible every day.”
For their part, Fuentes de la Generalitat have insisted that “a great technical and human effort has been made to reopen the Valencia Sud-Castelló section because the priority was that the users of the localities most affected by the floods recover such a fundamental means of transport”.
In this sense, they have stressed that 140 million euros have been invested and “the latest reconstruction tasks follow, but the priority for users was to reopen the section after months of works and a previous period of tests.” “The answer has been 100,000 people in the first week, which shows the importance and the best service regarding the shuttle buses,” they have concluded since the Ministry.
