Posted on 02/21/2023 11:57:46 AM PST by BenLurkin
Two top Spanish transport officials have resigned over a botched order for new commuter trains that cost nearly €260m ($275m; £230m).
The trains could not fit into non-standard tunnels in the northern regions of Asturias and Cantabria.
The head of Spain's rail operator Renfe, Isaías Táboas, and the Secretary of State for Transport, Isabel Pardo de Vera, have now left their roles.
Renfe ordered the trains in 2020 but the following year manufacturer CAF realised that the dimensions it had been given for the trains were inaccurate and stopped construction.
The rail network in northern Spain was built in the 19th Century and has tunnels under the mountainous landscape that do not match standard modern tunnel dimensions.
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Their wusses. LOL Our DOT secretary won’t quit even when our trains spew out toxic chemicals.
Size matters?
So does unit conversion. NASA lost a $125 Million Mars orbiter once.
Fredrico Fellini had no comment.
Okay, so that’s settled. Now where do I go to collect my Nobel Prize in Physics?
I bet some low-level technical designer told them the engines were too big for those tunnels...but the info did not survice the corporate chain of command.
“Two top Spanish transport officials have resigned”
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They got off easy just resigning, they should have been prosecuted for being criminally stupid (or criminally corrupt). I mean how incompetent can you be to do something like this? It boggles the mind.
Oi vehhhhh! PC til it hurts
I guess our government is not the only one that can screw things up.
The Spanish government certainly doesn’t want to piss off the northern part of Spain...
Ream the tunnels to standard size.
What a boring solution.
Musk has a company for that.
If this happened in California the Governor would decide to spend 2.8 Billion to widen the tunnels.
Labor Unions would be thrilled.
This is what happens when government is in charge of standards and data, especially with infrastructure.
It seems people in government in some places actually get fired.
At least they didn’t find out the hard way.
“The trains could not fit into non-standard tunnels”
Wait a second... Doesn’t this mean the tunnels are at fault for not matching the ‘standard’ vs the guys who ordered the train cars?
But being Spain. The people who quit already got their kickbacks and everyone takes short cuts about everything anyway.
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