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The successor of the Fyra, the Intercity Direct, struggling with ‘high drop. Writes Secretary of Infrastructure and the Environment Wilma Mansveld in a letter to the Lower House. NS and ProRail would have already taken steps to bring down the dropout.
Figures show that the failure of the train service between Amsterdam and Breda 4.4 percent in the first quarter rose to 7.8 percent in the second quarter. At the beginning of the third quarter in July, peaked dropout to 9.8 percent. The failure of the Benelux train, the Intercity between The Hague and Brussels, rose from 3.4 percent in 2013 to 4.5 percent in the first six months of this year. Incidentally, the Benelux train punctuality figures not known for delays of more than fifteen minutes.
The causes of the high dropout rate are due to the material and other factors, including the infrastructure and incidents. Both After the high speed of the track was removed, an alternative connection had to come quickly, writes Mansveld.
“In recent months, NS very intensive use of the existing equipment fleet to also realize. “the high frequencies without new equipment
This has led to increased wear, increased susceptibility to interference and unfortunately also more failure continues Mansveld. In the coming months there are new locomotives available. Another factor is that regular intercity get to malfunction precedence over the Intercity Direct.
Mansveld expected starting next six months will go down again
NS and rail infrastructure manager ProRail have already taken measures in accordance with the Secretary of State. In addition to the purchase of new equipment, a team drawn which can intervene in case of failures quickly. Mansveld expects that the measures are the next six months cause the failure goes down again.
“If this is not the case then I will ask NS to take further measures for improvement.”
D66: Why wait further measures
D66 parliamentarian Stientje van Veldhoven does not understand why Mansveld one half wants to wait, leave it in a reaction to news agency Novum.
“Why would these measures keep on hand? I want the Minister to know what concrete ambitions she has for reducing the delays. “
Van Veldhoven further denounces the intention of the NS to the money-back control of the Intercity Direct despite to retrenchment. many delays It is important that every effort be made to ensure reliable high-speed line in the work. “After all the trouble with Fyra ‘
“The money-back guarantee with delays may only be retrenched when the problems are solved.”
Next checked charged today the failure of the train. Also check Intercity Direct is four to five times a day.
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- Stientje van Veldhoven
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