# Possible Madrid–Catalonia high-speed rail closure raises safety questions

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2116259578027676055
- Source account: [@cayetanaAT](https://x.com/cayetanaAT)
- Source language: Spanish
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:19
- Published: 2026-10-30
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- Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/R37EOlQiNwOA/es/posible-cierre-del-corredor-ave-madrid-catalu%C3%B1a-dudas-sobre-la-seguridad.md

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/R37EOlQiNwOA/en/possible-madrid-catalonia-high-speed-rail-closure-raises-safety-questions) You say the minister has said that he is considering the possibility of shutting down for a year the Madrid, uh, Catalonia corridor.

[0:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/R37EOlQiNwOA/en/possible-madrid-catalonia-high-speed-rail-closure-raises-safety-questions?t=9) But until very recently, he was saying that on that corridor, speeds would exceed three hundred and fifty kilometers per hour.

[0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/R37EOlQiNwOA/en/possible-madrid-catalonia-high-speed-rail-closure-raises-safety-questions?t=15) But can you imagine that the same citizen who says that high- speed rail is at its best moment in Spain's history and that the corridor is already in a position to certify speeds exceeding three hundred and fifty kilometers per hour, now tells those of us who have taken that AVE, those who still take it, those who still travel on it,

[0:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/R37EOlQiNwOA/en/possible-madrid-catalonia-high-speed-rail-closure-raises-safety-questions?t=41) that he is considering the possibility of closing that corridor for a year, which is one of the newest?

[0:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/R37EOlQiNwOA/en/possible-madrid-catalonia-high-speed-rail-closure-raises-safety-questions?t=48) Therefore, the Madrid- Andalusia corridor, which is the longest-running, the oldest, that there have already been two accidents, more than 115 dead, what are you going to do about that route?

[1:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/R37EOlQiNwOA/en/possible-madrid-catalonia-high-speed-rail-closure-raises-safety-questions?t=61) Anyway, no, I don't want to keep thinking out loud what I think…

[1:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/R37EOlQiNwOA/en/possible-madrid-catalonia-high-speed-rail-closure-raises-safety-questions?t=68) what I've been thinking for some time, but you asked me that question.

[1:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/R37EOlQiNwOA/en/possible-madrid-catalonia-high-speed-rail-closure-raises-safety-questions?t=72) I didn't know the minister had said that, I assure you.

[1:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/R37EOlQiNwOA/en/possible-madrid-catalonia-high-speed-rail-closure-raises-safety-questions?t=76) I couldn't have imagined it.