I heard this on the radio this morning while having breakfast. Spain has spent 258 million Euros (about $276 million US) on trains that are too large to fit in their tunnels... Story here. The blame hot potato is being tossed around the many agencies that are involved in the fiasco (which is what happens when a lot of bureaucrats are involved...). Fortunately, the trains are still in the design stage (they were ordered in 2020), but it's going to get expensive to redesign them to fit the tunnels. Heads are already rolling...
Why, who would ever consider such a minor thing? Some engineer (NOT train) probably thought, ",,,they can just make the tunnels bigger." Doug
Good grief. I am certain there is plenty of blame to go around. It sounds as though some design work had already been done. The designer should have asked for (required) clearance specifications from the start. The government should have supplied that with their proposal data.
That mess is what happens when there is one agency that operates the trains, another that takes care of the physical plant, etc. etc. and neither talks to the other. The left hand vs. right hand bit, neither knows what the other hand is doing, all the while the feet are stumbling about like Foster Brooks on a pub crawl. Then they start pointing fingers (or toes) at the next guy, who point it at the next one, etc. Circular firing squad.
Follows a similar issue in France when the new model of regional trains was found (after delivery) interfering with the platform clearances, they had to scrape off the platforms in quite a number of stations, obviously creating a larger gap for the other trains. I think some of the trains were scraped off by the platforms themselves.... Yep, like the idea of a circular fire squad.
Yea but but but . . the signs outside the tunnel entrances say "No Trespassing/Pedestrians Allowed" SO HOW IS ANYONE GONNA MEASURE D'AT?" See avatar should say "<- Gov't Answers --" (left off quick cliff) . .
