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Train Cars in France too wide to hundreds of stations.
A Regional Express Train, or TER is sationed along a platform at the Saint Lazare train station in Paris, Wednesday, May 21, 2014 The engineers of the French railway network forgot to measure the actual distance between the lines and platforms forms before ordering 341 new trains, which were to be introduced by 2016, it will cost 50 million euros to solve the problem Nearly 1,300 stations are a few centimeters too narrow AP Photo Remy of MAUVINIERE.
Embarrassed French railway officials tried on Wednesday to explain why they ordered new train cars of a consortium that includes the Canadian manufacturer Bombardier that are too large to fit through hundreds of regional stations.
The problem was revealed by The Chained Duck, a satirical newspaper that often publishes presentations investigation According to the newspaper, a breakdown in communication between the two state companies resulted in the order of cars that will be a few centimeters too wide.
The blunder was the French ministers ventilation railway managers.
Minister of Energy and Ecology Ségolène Royal has described as an incredible error, while the Minister of Transport junior Frédéric Cuvillier said it was absurd grotesque, an allusion to the absurd theater.
In a statement on its website, Réseau Ferré de France, which is responsible for the network of the country railways, said 1300 platforms of the station should be razed, a revision that would cost about 75 million.
The problem is not cars, but the infrastructure in some centennial stations, the corporation said.
Trains incorporate international standards is a matter of adapting our platform to these international standards.
The cars were ordered from a consortium comprising Bombardier Transportation and the French company Alstom Transport and part of the TER 2N NG electrically powered system for regional express service.
This is terrible, so how out of sync decisions with reality can be taken People need to get out of their offices and come to the station and get a good understanding of the situation before making decisions that cost so much, Ms. Royal told reporters after a cabinet meeting.
M. Cuvillier blamed the gaffe on the reform of 17 who divided the responsibility of the railway system between two state companies.
The railway carrier continues to operate the rolling stock but Réseau Ferré de France was created to manage the rail infrastructure.
This sad situation is funny if it wasn t an illustration that the railway system is absurd, absurd, M. Cuvillier told BFM TV.
Speaking on Europe 1 radio, President of Réseau Ferré de France, Jacques Rapoport said cars have to be larger to accommodate the increased traffic and the need to be accessible to commuters with mobility problems.
Whenever we introduce new rolling stock, we have to adapt the infrastructure This work is normal, he said.
However, he admitted that the question of the platform was not immediately obvious to the planners.
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