naranjito

> they already ordered a collision before

What do you mean? "Everyone crash now"? Makes no sense. "Tried to solve"? There was no collision before.

The situation seems to be that they stopped the trains due to a problem somewhere. When they thought it was solved, they commanded all of them to move again. And when one reported to be unable to do so, they failed to stop those that were around it. Or that is what the leaked conversations suggest. Do not discard this was tactical leaks to blame a scapegoat. The newer system should be running.

I say around, because news mention that a third train could have crashed into the wreckage of the other two. It was moving in the other direction, towards Madrid. Luckly it stopped when the electricity failed. It would have been like the accident early this year, when a train hit other that just had a derailment.

Not every city needed an airport, nor every roundabout needed to be decorated with sculptures. Everything that is needed for every place, like software for health care or judiciary, should be contracted at the national level, not 17 times at the regional one.

And pretty sure that if some stopped pocketing 3% of public contracts, or whatever amount is now, competition among companies would be better and money would achieve more.

And ES-Alert is all or nothing. All calm or end-of-the-world. There is no option to send moderate level warnings, the ones that can be disabled. It always uses level 1, even if EU-Alert also defines 2-4. Population can not act as filter like a farmer chatting with non-farmers and saying "tomorrow I have to move the cows because the warning".

The contract to make the line ERTMS compliant was published in 2020, with 2024 as completion target. Errors meant it had to be offered again, pushing it to 2025 and then 2026. The crash could have been avoided.

Spain, the land of the Empresaurio.

The rumor is that staff is being pushed to restore service as fast as possible after a problem is "solved". EU push for green transport and privatization means lines were opened to competition, increasing the number of trains compared to some decades ago when only one operator used them with less trains than it does now. IIRC currently the lines have two operators (3 in some places?), meaning that traffic more than doubled. Those in power do not want the service to have more delays. And instead of updating and maintaining the infrastructure, Adif stresses it even more, both in the technical and personal fronts. Thus the accidents. But nobody at the top resigns, blame low level scapegoats instead.

The Iryo train was stopped and unable to restart, because it's safety system did not allow that until the signalling issue was corrected. The AVE was commanded to move again like normal (200 Km/h or more). When the Iryo reported to be stuck, all the trains in the line should have been notified to stop once more, or go at line-of-sight speeds (40 Km/h). Both options are bad for delays. Current news is that five minutes after the Iryo call, the AVE rammed its back at 160-200 Km/h.

CEO of Iryo company complained 3 weeks ago about LZB being problematic, their trains taking a long time to recover connection. Safe but old, he said. It should have been replaced by ERTMS by 2024-2026.

Spaniards are a lazy bunch of party animals, waking up late and going to sleep late too...

Or the clocks are wrong. Once you realize noon is 13h in winter and 14h in summer, never 12h, things start to make sense. Late lunch? Not really, Sun at same height than Italy, but clocks off by 1.

For the "public image" part of the experiment, the conclusion is easy: bad. Time to change clocks so waking up happens at "3h" in the morning, and become a country of hard workers with no nightlife, because everyone retires "early". Even if discos are full as in the past.