The infrastructure minister, Andreas Carlsson (Christian Democrats), responds to criticism following the recent enormous disruptions to train services. He states that thunderstorms, solar creep, and trespassing on the tracks are behind the train chaos \u2013 but also extensive lack of maintenance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2013 The railway has been maintained very poorly for decades while train traffic has increased. Then I think many understand that problems will arise, he says on P1 Morgon on Tuesday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Andreas Carlsson believes that the maintenance debt has been allowed to grow for decades \u2013 but that the government is now working to pay it off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"What we are doing now is turning the trend and investing more in maintenance,\" he says, adding that the government is making record investments in the railway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2013 This year, 1,700 maintenance jobs are planned. That's a new record. There has never been as much maintenance carried out as this year, says Andreas Carlsson<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Source: Expressen.se<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Infrastrukturministern Andreas Carlsson (KD) svarar p\u00e5 kritiken efter den senaste tidens enorma t\u00e5gstrul. Han menar att \u00e5skv\u00e4der, solkurvor och t\u00e5gspring ligger bakom t\u00e5gkaoset \u2013 men ocks\u00e5 omfattande underh\u00e5llsbrist. \u2013 J\u00e4rnv\u00e4gen har underh\u00e5llits v\u00e4ldigt d\u00e5ligt i decennier samtidigt som t\u00e5gtrafiken \u00f6kat. D\u00e5 tror jag m\u00e5nga f\u00f6rst\u00e5r att det blir problem, s\u00e4ger han i P1 Morgon under […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":297394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4084],"tags":[234,6014,191,6013,289],"class_list":["post-300602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tag-bransch","tag-sj","tag-solkurvor","tag-tag-taag","tag-tagstrulet","tag-vader"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n