Thirty years ago I visited Paris and London for the first time. We went by car and traversed the English Channel by ferry; we had no special problem going by car in the aforementioned capitals.

This year we have made a similar journey, but we have not dared to enter the capitals by car. In the case of London, we stayed in the city of Folkestone, 120 kilometers away, and we used a fast train that needed 50 minutes to get closer to London. The train follows the old road and stops at four stations. On the same route other trains run slower and with more stations. I was also struck by the fare system, as trains 8 and 10 in the morning are not paid equally. In rush hours, always more expensive.

It was a fast train, maybe not too fast, but enough. I do not know what the investment was made in his day, but I think it would be very modest compared to what is being done and done in Euskal Herria, Spain and France around the APR.

I know that extrapolation works well in mathematics and not so well outside of it, but we use extrapolations adapted around the world and in many situations of life. I therefore tried to move England to and around the Basque Country; the road from Irun to Madrid, if the old railway were to be reformed, could be done in two and a half or three hours, and from Hendaya to Paris in more than four hours, and to build it I do not think we would need more than half a dozen years. From this decade on, therefore, we would have launched two relatively fast railway lines.
We would maintain the balance between speed and investment and be able to make a leap in the next decade through technological systems such as Hyperloop, always maintaining a balance between the investments to be made and the results obtained.

The TAV we are building in Euskal Herria will take fifteen or twenty years to get underway, Madrid and Paris will continue as far as they are now and between the effort made and the result achieved there will be no good ratios. In this respect, I believe that the warning sent from Europe last July, but without that warning, we cannot deny that we are dealing with an infrastructure which is taking too long and which requires excessive economic effort.

I want to continue traveling and I often need speed to reach the goals and the train I like. But also in public works we must show the didactics that we demand in many other areas.