The College of Civil Engineers estimates that high-speed rail maintenance will require 10 billion euros over the next 10 years.
They claim that the Madrid-Barcelona line can be renovated comprehensively without drastically cutting off traffic.
The Spanish railway system has lost credibility and efficiency, according to Iñaki Barrón, spokesperson for the Committee of Inquiry into the Urda accident. He warns that 10,000 million euros will be needed over the next decade for high-speed rail maintenance. The Madrid-Barcelona line can be renovated without drastically cutting traffic, he says, but a "deep surgery" is needed to recover the Spanish rail network. Barrón also criticizes the complexity of having two signalling systems, ASFA and LZB, in high-speed lines.
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