The hearings in the parliamentary inquiry into the failed Fyra started. Until 12 June, 40 witnesses heard under oath. The goal: to get to the bottom of the top, said President Madeleine Toorenburg (CDA). That Fyra is a costly fiasco, we all know. But what do we really know yet? And there we have the answer coming weeks? We’ll keep the answers in the coming weeks on this page at.
“We want to be a tribunal, we do not designate one guilty,” Toorenburg said. She pulled Friday decent attention to the price tag they stuck to the failed train project: 11 billion euros. The commission came to the amount by the sum wrote editor Mark Duursma last weekend in NRC (€): The costs of the construction of the HSL (7.2 billion), infrastructure around the line, maintenance and trains . Total cost: 10.8 billion euros.
View the brief explanation Toorenburg gave on the survey:
For clarity. The parliamentary committee investigating what went wrong with the procurement and purchase of high-speed train , and not what went wrong at an earlier stage in the construction of the high speed line (HSL). Speakers are ministers, user organizations, officials and train drivers. The study will cost 2.1 million euros.
These are the questions that remain to be answered. NRC editor Mark Duursma follows the interrogations and keeps track of what is being said and whether answers to the questions.
1 The puzzle tender
How did the second cabinet Cook (1998-2002 VVD, PvdA and D66) to the choice of procurement of the HSL transport?
Day 1: The then Transport Minister Netelenbos (PvdA) was the only within the Cabinet Purple II to the tendering of the high speed line. Prime Minister Wim Cook, however mauled her informal letter about this. That said, the highest official of the Ministry of Transport Ralph Pans under oath.
2 What of it “absurdly high bid” of the NS?
Why was the concession fee payable to the NS was prepared to win the bid initially so high (first 178 million euros, after 148 million and only in 2011 100 million)? According to many it was a first absurdly high bid was fair operation of HSL impossible
Day 1. Officer Ralph Pans said the Ministry of Transport has wondered after the high bid of the DND or the government is not too low minimum concession fee (EUR 100 million) had requested. It was at the ministry, however, did not doubt the feasibility of the high bid. “We went out of proper assessment by the board of the train.”
3 A streetcar manufacturer?
Why the choice of NS for AnsaldoBreda, an Italian manufacturer that mainly made trams until then? There are many sub-questions. Because other countries had not been arguing with the company, just about malfunctioning speed trains? Is it true that other manufacturers were small order?
4 Defective inspection
Is it true that during the construction of the Fyra lacked proper inspection? And that the Irish-based leasing company of the NS, NS Financial Services Company no lawyers and no working technicians? (The company buys new NS trains and then rents them to NS, read more at NRCQ).
5 Poor marriage
On May 30, 2013 the Belgians announced that they had unilaterally decided to stop the Fyra . “There has never been one Belgian who said let’s together here a success of it,” said one employee who is closely involved in the Fyra file across NRC. At the start in 1996, no agreements on certain points. The Belgian rail company SNCB would have had little faith in the Fyra. Is this all?
To deepen from NRC:
June 18, 2011: Even before it went wrong, was wrong. In 2011, threatened to High Speed Alliance (HSA), the company that runs the Fyra high-speed train, made each day so much loss (380,000 euros), which threatened to fall. Investigative journalists NRC Steven Derix and Huib Modderkolk investigated how it could come to this: At high speed toward financial disaster NS wanted to talk the price down even after the purchase (€)
August 4, 2012:. When the Fyra once made its maiden trip, which happened almost in silence. The omens were not good, and saw Derix Modderkolk. The Albatros rides, occasionally (€)
11 December 2012. The Fyra was the first Dutch high-speed train. The weekend after he finally started to ride on the Amsterdam-Brussels, Modderkolk wrote a driving impression from the cab: The red and white colossus whines and roars (€)
26 January 2013. Why NS ever decided to buy the Fyra? NRC Handelsblad and the Flemish newspaper Standard investigated the Fyra debacle and then made the Fyra of the track was removed reconstruction. Conclusion: NS was never planning to buy real high speed trains. “220 kilometers per hour was enough.” Read the whole piece back free
June 1, 2013:. The collaboration between the NS and SNCB on Fyra has never been good. The Belgians had little confidence from the start in the train. A very bad marriage between Belgian and Dutch Railways (€)
June 4, 2013:. After the Belgians withdrew from the Fyra, followed the NS. How could it come to that, and what should happen now? Journalists wrote about Huib Modderkolk and Dolf de Groot in the play The NS is now also behind this is nothing
June 22, 2013: The end of Fyra caused a conflict between the NS and supplier AnsaldoBreda. The NS wanted a share of the money back. CEO Maurizio Manfellotto of the Italian manufacturer hit back. “I will not be judged negatively by a client who is so incompetent,” he said in an interview with NRC-editor Marc Leijendekker. “NS has huge stabbing drop (€)
May 16, 2015:. While high-speed trains at 300 kilometers per hour by neighbors rage, the Netherlands has a train that does not go faster than 160 kilometers per hours. Economics Editor Mark Duursma wrote a piece about what the committee is going to do in the coming weeks. Fiasco, drama, debacle: Pick your choice (€)
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