[6t6t6]

I really don't think the Spanish AVE is something to be proud of. The only purpose of building most of the lines was political. And well, because with big projects many politicians can get rich.

The total cost of the AVE has been estimated in over 50 trillion euro, and in some lines they don't even get 100 passengers a day.

Probably, public transportation doesn't need to be build taking only into account the short-term economic profit, but in Spain they just burnt a massive amount of taxpayers' money in a useless infrastructure. And Spaniards will struggle for decades to pay the dept... if they manage to pay it at all.