– The government has been clear. The State should take overall responsibility for the control and execution for maintenance of the Swedish railways, says Minister Anna Johansson (s) today.
But according to sources within the Cabinet Office, she intends not that the state should take over the private operators’ role in the maintenance, which the Social Democrats promised before the election last fall.
The Government investigators Gunnar Alexandersson proposes a study today that the Swedish Transport Administration should gain better control of their facilities. For example, he believes that the Finnish Transport Agency should have its own employees who inspects and verifies that the Swedish railways maintained properly.
Representatives of the private rail industry think that the Swedish Transport Administration must be tightened up.
– Transport Administration must be organized so that they have more control over their facilities, one must have better track of what maintenance needs to be done and when, says Björn Westerberg, spokesperson for the rail industry, in a press release today.
In contrast, the industry is against the nationalization of maintenance.
Transport Administration will present tomorrow, Friday its own investigation on how you look at the organization.
Train Operating Companies consider, among other things, that the work should be shared in a railway and a road unit.
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