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The Madrid-Valencia Ave excess of 281,000 passengers two months

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AVE MADRID-VALENCIA: THE TRUTH OF THE NUMBERS

As we have said on other occasions, is known reluctance of this and all governments to provide citizens with the transparency of numbers, statistics. When they do, often late, wrong, and surreptitiously in a revolutum, inaccurate. This is what happened to the figures of the three years of the Madrid-Barcelona and now spends two months filming the AVE Valencia, which opened on December 19.

In this case, Public Works has provided, as in the case of Madrid-Barna, the figures in annual values so that readers get lost in thousands or hundreds of thousands and scale mislead taxpayers can understand and appreciate: passenger-day vialeros train. Neither say they are demand data point to point, ie Madrid-Valencia, without including the intermediate stations.

Well, 281,000 + travelers going back in two months, between Madrid and Valencia are few trips. A simple note: viajes/60 281,000 passenger-days = 4,683 days, divided into 30 circles (15 +15 back leg) are 156 passenger traffic (train) that much to want badly to fill 3 buses. Given that each of the 102 series train has 365 seats, the average daily is 42.8%. As know, because it encourages not easy, statistics from other broker relationships, it is safe to say that the whole corridor average occupancy is less, not nearly to 60%. With the occupation of passengers, the minister must demonstrate the profitability of this new infrastructure, which is quite difficult given the high cost of infrastructure, its annual maintenance of the acquisition costs of trains and thus the costs of depreciation, operating also high Attendant (RENFE), more financial, more general, more .....
politicians, even when they provide a number, are unaware of its scope.