Fyra survey: € 11 billion cost for failed HSL – Financieele Dagblad (Registration)

Nearly € 11 billion has cost the taxpayer. Nevertheless, the construction of the high-speed line from Amsterdam to Brussels ended in failure. The Fyra train was removed in January 2013 due to defects of the track. From Monday, May 18th launch a parliamentary inquiry commission with public hearings to find an explanation for the debacle.

Madeleine Toorenburg

HH

The High Speed ​​Line has in total up to now € 10.8 billion cost, as did committee Madeleine Toorenburg Wednesday at a press conference announced. “And the meter is still running.” That she referred to the costs to be paid since the construction of the infrastructure for maintenance and repairs. Track parts have more to do with subsidence to be rectified so.

“The ambition is not much ended,” declared Toorenburg the plans since the eighties to connect to a high speed train to Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris. NS in December 2001 won the contract to run high-speed trains on the new railway, but when the trains late 2012 finally came into use, they have ridden more than forty days. “The traveler has had it inspected.

For four weeks, witnesses the committee hearings under oath. Since early 2014 have already heard eighty players behind closed doors, requested information and conducted research file. The president said he will get to the bottom, but not to act as a tribunal to apportion blame.

Main Questions:

• How is the contract of carriage by HSL expired
• How has the relationship between the NS and the contractor and the State as client and shareholder? ?
• How the trains procured by NS and why the choice of the manufacturer AnsaldoBreda case?
• How is the decision to take the Fyra trains from service established ?

The committee was installed on December 19, 2013. It consists of the following members:

• Madeleine Toorenburg (Chairman CDA)
• Mei Li Vos (Vice-Chair, Labour)
• Vera Bergkamp ( D66)
• Ton Elias (VVD)
• Henk van Gerven (SP)

In the first questioning was in the award of the concession to the railway transport center. Also, the role of parliament discussed and begun interrogations about the tender for the Fyra. The committee expects to present its report in the autumn of 2015 to the House.