The Community of Madrid has issued this Friday an ultimatum to the national Government on Cercanías, or receives a response to the demand for a meeting with the Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, Raquel Sánchez, and a minimum fund of 2,000 million is negotiated euros or will study legal action.
"If the Ministry does not contact the Community today to take measures, we will already study other more demanding measures so that the Government fulfills its obligation", the Minister of Transport, David Pérez, has launched to the media.
In line with the problems, he has estimated at 230 the breakdowns that the network has presented throughout 2023, which would imply about five a day due to the "lack of investment and discrimination" in the region.
Given the "collapse" to which it submits, according to Pérez, the Government of PSOE and Podemos should set up a fund of at least 2,000 million to solve the problems, although it has set the objective of recovering the 5,000 million euros that the PP had raised before being deposed by the motion of censure.
Regarding what measures he would take, the counselor has defended that the lack of funds "attempts against the principle of equality" and has warned that, in the event that he does not receive an answer, it will be "necessary to speed up all legal instances to demand something that is a right of all Spaniards and cannot be trampled on".
For the Madrid minister, when this lack of investment begins to "notice" it implies that the moment is "very serious" and he has warned that the integrity of people is currently being "endangered" beyond the inconvenience of the users because it doesn't work well.
This Thursday an incident in the Recoletos tunnel caused severe delays on five Cercanías lines. This prompted the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, to also demand by letter to Raquel Sánchez to increase investment and the regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, to accuse the central government of leaving the Community "naked" in the face of the "collapse systematic and daily" commuter.
