Even if we don't use the High Speed ​​Train, we pay for it.

Even if we do not use the High Speed ​​Train, we pay for it: The High Speed ​​Train Project was added to the discussions on “we pay for the unused road” that emerged after the planned crossings at the Eurasia Tunnel, Osmangazi and the 3rd Bosphorus Bridge were not realized. The General Secretary of the United Transportation Employees Union, İshak Kocabıyık said, "The difference is out of our pocket even if we do not use the services we do not use, the ticket we do not buy, how we pay for the bridge we do not cross."

High Speed ​​Train (YHT), which has been presented as 'Mega Project' since the AK Party government came to power, started in 2002 and the project is planned to be completed in 2023. As of 25, there are only one thousand 2017 kilometers in the 300 railway line. The remaining 6 said it was impossible for the line to be completed over the years, the United Transport Workers Union (BTS) Secretary General Ishak Kocabıyık said, TS The services we don't use, the ticket we didn't buy, the difference in how we pay the bridge we didn't pass, on the fast train, even if we don't use it, it comes out of our pocket Kalan.

'NEVER LEAVES THE PEOPLE'
Kocabıyık stated that the High Speed ​​Train costs are high. Planlan Initial feasibility studies were not successful in the first phase. Later on, the report prepared to carry 25 passengers in Ankara-Istanbul High Speed ​​Train. These passengers would only pay the cost if they were charged with an amount of 35 per person. Today the ticket price is about 70 Turkish Lira. The difference is that the people who do not use this means of transport comes out of the pocket. Ger

'WE ARE PAID IN ANKARA'
29 October 2016 was opened by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the High Speed ​​Train Station in Ankara. Erdogan's opening of the structure does not belong to TCDD indicating Kocabıyık said:

Değil It is not the TCDD in Ankara, which is called YHT Station. Made by a private company for 20 years. This company is guaranteed to pay 1.5 dollars per passenger. State Railways has given 10 million passengers a guarantee for 106 annually. As we fall below this figure, we pay them. Bu

'I will cut the first tick'
Prime Minister Erdoğan announced that the YHT project will be completed in 2005 of Ankara-Istanbul Line. Kocabıyık, Erdogan's 2005 "in the first ticket I'm going to cut," he recalled the project in the 2017 but with the shortcomings have been finished, he said. , The high-speed train line is still not OK, Genel the Secretary-General continued. After Bozüyük, the old line goes to Köseköy and then goes to Pendik at a speed of 60 per hour due to a problem in the signal system. We can not get the answers to these questions. We did not like before the high-speed train even 20 million per year did not like. Today the number of passengers transported by high-speed trains is up to 2 million. You see the difference. F

'FAST TRAIN COST HIGH'
High-speed train infrastructure and operating costs are very high, stating that good planning Kocabıyık "Yozgat'a why high-speed train is done, operating costs are also quite high cost of construction," he said.

Kocabıyık said, ın I am not saying that it should not be done to Yozgat., He continued, ”If all Yozgat people come to Ankara every day, you cannot recover. There must be an economic necessity or a social necessity to make such investments. You have opened the service between Ankara and Konya. But for many years you have passed Istanbul between Istanbul and Istanbul. Now they are boasting that 250 is driving at an hourly speed. We know that it doesn't go at the same speed everywhere, it can't go. Bil

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