Mayor Pete’s apparent lock on bureaucratic incompetence regarding transportation might be up for grabs. Two of Spain’s senior transport officials were forced to resign. Isaías Táboas and Isabel Pardo de Vera are out of work after this ‘minor’ error became public.
Two top Spanish transport officials quit their jobs after ordering trains too wide to fit through tunnels.
The order for the new commuter trains amounted to nearly €260 million, although the Spanish government claims that the mistake was detected quickly enough to prevent financial losses.
Spain’s train operator, Renfe, placed the order for the trains in 2020, but the manufacturer CAF realized that the dimensions provided for the trains were inaccurate and halted further work. The mistake has delayed the delivery of the trains by at least two years.
Several other bureaucrats were relieved of their employment as well. It turns out that the trains they ordered were to be “built according to modern rail specifications.”
However, the rail network in Asturias and Cantabria was built in the 19th century and does not adhere to modern standardized specifications. The region is mountainous, and the tunnels that cut through the rock were not built to a standard size matching modern specifications.
Back in America, the only thing disrupted is Mayor Pete’s vacation. He’s had to travel to East Palestine, Ohio (to do what I have no idea), but only because Donald Trump showed up with pallets of bottled water and supplies for the town that he paid for himself.
Even out of office, Trump is more presidential than anyone running the Biden administration. However, it is said that stumbles Biden will attempt to get out of an aircraft somewhere near the man-caused ecological disaster in the near future.
If the cold, wintery weather permits.
And as for financial losses in Spain, I don’t believe them when they say there weren’t any.
Bureaucrats lie in every language.
