Thursday, May 22, 2014

The great train blunder: France's SNCF mocked...

France's transport minister Frédéric Culliver called it "tragically comical".

News that French rail chiefs will have to shell out tens of millions to alter 1,300 station platforms because its new fleet of trains are too wide continued to cause both outrage and hilarity on France on Thursday.

With Culliver ordering an immediate inquiry into how the wrong measurements could have been handed over to two companies making the trains, politicians continued to express their anger over the gaffe.

Marine Le Pen accused the rail authorities of downplaying the real cost, saying the €50 million ($68 million) figure was a "gross underestimation".

Main opposition leader Jean-François Copé from the centre-right UMP party called it a "Kafkaesque" situation and the head of France's ruling Socialist party was equally scathing.

 "It's absolutely astounding. Frankly I don't understand," said Socialist party chief Jean-Christophe Cambadélis. Full story...

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