Spanish transport secretary resigns after $275 million in new trains are too big for the tunnels
Spain's transportation department and the private state rail operator, Renfe, announced a fat $275 million contract that started three years ago to modernize the country's commuter railway in Asturias and Cantabria with fancy new trains. Problem is, last month it was discovered that the new trains under construction are too wide to make it through the existing tunnels. — Read the rest