The Government apologizes to Cantabria for the error in the dimensions of the Cercanías trains and Revilla demands that "this botch" have "someone responsible"

• Controversy The Government recognizes that the new Cercanías trains between Cantabria and Asturias do not fit in the tunnels due to a calculation "problem"

The President of Cantabria,

, has informed this Saturday that the Minister of Transport,

, has apologized for the failure in the dimensions of the Cercanías trains that will delay the arrival of the fleet committed to the region , but the president has asked him that this

has "someone responsible" because "it is not presentable that something is put out to tender in 2019 and we find out now that the width of the trains did not coincide with that of the tunnels".

To questions from the press, Revilla explained that he had been calling the minister since Thursday "but she did not call" and he was

.

"He called me, apologized, told me that, indeed, someone had to pay the consequences of this mistake, and that he promised to expedite the start-up of the manufacture of the trains as soon as possible and that he would give an explanation in

" , where he will go this Saturday for an institutional and campaign visit.

In this sense, Revilla hopes that the minister will be "clear and forceful and that she will tell us how it is possible that in a country like Spain, a pioneer in the world in the construction of infrastructures, an error of this caliber appears, where we still do not know if the person in charge is

..., but the minister is the head of those organisms and she will have to clarify it".

After emphasizing that "making a train is easier than making tunnels or railways", Revilla has demanded that Sánchez "above all" give

"reasonable deadlines, although the time lost is irrecoverable, because the trains had to be in operation ", he recalled.

Regarding the period of two or three years of waiting that has been offered by the Ministry, the president has said that "I already signed because it would be two years; I hope it will be two and not three. But the botch is monumental and unpresentable for that to happen in a moderately serious government".

Asked whether the

will arrive in Cantabria before the Cercanías trains, the president said that the AVE "is going well because we are going to have already been awarded to

this year and probably the next one for the section to

".

Revilla has made these statements before participating in an act against cancer in Santander.

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