MADRID AND PARIS TO THEY PUT US A TRAIN OF HALF SPEED, BUT WE WILL TRANSFORM IT A VERY HIGH PROFITABILITY

The Government's president, Mariano Rajoy, it has reaffirmed this Wednesday the calendar of finalization of the works of the line of the High Speed between Barcelona and Perpignan and with them the entrance of the service the next 15 of December the direct itinerary  between Barcelona and Paris. In wheel of the Spanish executive's boss's combined press and their French homologous, François Hollande, Rajoy has been congratulated of the news because for the first time the AVE will connect France and Spain and it has also proclaimed that the connection "reaffirms Catalonia like axis of interconnections" between both countries. 

Very beautiful words that go in search of a medal of honor, because the certain thing is that what Madrid and Paris start, is a substitute of the "High Speed" or maybe better expressed a rail connection to "half speed" who stays the other stocking is not clear, I that have revised the layout believe that they stay it a part, each capital although officially it is said that it is a tract in France.  

It is another clear example of falsehood to Catalonia as much on the part of Madrid as on the part of Paris, that of Madrid understands each other but not so much that of Paris, because it happens this, because I believe that for the same problem, in both parts of the natural barrier of the Pyrenees, he is the same culture and the same Catalan identity, and this for both capitals, paradigms of the state centralism are very dangerous. If Madrid fears the independence of the Spanish Catalonia, Paris he fears that if this it arrives, the new Catalonia mobilizes for mimicry to its half sleeping Catalonia.  

Anyway, we attend an authentic historical achievement as regards interconnections among Spain with the rest of Europe", and at the moment this is what we should take place. Although it is to half speed Spain he comes closer to europa and europa to Spain, and between Catalonia as always, and I don't say it in pejorative sense but just the opposite, Catalonia has always been there, anchored almost like a hinge that allowed to open up and to close the door of the europeísmo and of the Spanishness as much in a sense as in the other one. 

He opened the entrance to the Visigoths, a town of those considered barbarians by the Romans, and that coming from the east, they were moving along the centuries III and V for the whole south of Europe from east to occident, he cohabited with the franc’s that had settled to the other side of the perineum, hill the Muslim invasion that had invaded the Iberian peninsula being part of the empire Carolingian, later on hill the Iberian peninsula as integral part of the crown of Aragon, when becoming the such Spain and like it has arrived until these days, it was entrance door and of exit to Napoleon from  and to France, and it also served as entrance and escaped people's of the wars of Spain exit and of Europe. So now that they finally put us a train of wide of via international it doesn't miss us at all, now that they want it to us to sell for high speed we can no longer admit it, it is simply a train that he goes more quickly but the important thing to me to understand is, metaphorically speaking, up to where we will make it arrive.  

And I say this because the Spanish president highlighted also that the setting in service of this new transborder AVE "reaffirms to Catalonia like axis of the Hispanic-French" interconnections. This is very venturous on the other hand to say it, before clarifying the problematic situation that we are living these last years between Spain and Catalonia, says it because it is possible that this connection is more a connection of Catalonia Europe for France that doesn't unite connection Spain France, because if we continue for the one on the way to the Catalan independence, and the Spanish intransigence constantly threatening us in leaving us outside of europa, Catalonia will have very clear from that first moment toward where to look for the connection and toward where to complicate it the most possible thing.   

Certainly after this long focus of the question we see two things. A because the train that Barcelona will connect and Paris is not a (AVE or TGV) although they are these models of trains those that carry out the itinerary, because simply for the times of trip that they are no assumable for the high-speed concept, they will see you of Barcelona to Paris are 1000 kilometers and the half speed of a high speed this or it should be in 300 Km. / hour, this tells us that the itinerary should last 3horas and 20 minutes, if we add some intermediate stops we put some 4 hours, the forecast that gives the setting announcement in operation is of 6 and a half hours, more than 50% of that 

 

But we go to the positive side the connection, although slow, it is extraordinary mainly for Catalonia we see which are: 

5 daily relationships for sense: 

- Barcelona-Paris, in 6 hours and 25 minutes,  

- Barcelona-Toulouse, 3 hours, from 39 up to 77 € 

- Barcelona-Lyon, 4 hours and 53 minutes, from 49 up to 114 € 

- Barcelona-Marseilles, in 4 hours and 17 minutes, from 49 up to 100 € 

Since the problem of the speed is bounded in a piece of the French layout by what they tell us, it is of supposing that some day they descended these times, but the important thing is that Barcelona, Lyon, Marseilles, and mainly Toulouse, will be at single three hours of trip this opens an area of great importance for the business and all type of industrial activity that he leaned on mainly in the logistical infrastructures of Barcelona when this in march completely the rail corridor of the Mediterranean. 

With these perspectives the restlessness independent of Catalonia grows exponentially, because almost one can say that a fourth part of France will be a market of vicinity, and I refer that is to say in both addresses Catalonia it will also be an almost natural market for the whole southeast of France, for that reason my previous appreciation that the train of "medium speed" that will be inaugurated December 15 will be slow, but the profit and the reach of its advantages, they can be for enormous to Catalonia.