“I do four hours by train to provide rent”
Madrid is often described as the city of opportunities. This fame has extended that hundreds of thousands of people move to the capital to achieve dreams or search for their chance. Specifically 116,143 in 2024, according to the city council. However, the housing supply crisis and the high prices after this Some have led to the search for other options to achieve his dreams in the capital without living in them. For example, go and go back daily by train. “Go and go back every day from Valladolid to save for rent“Explains the trips between Valdolid and Madrid from Monday to Thursday and young pollution,” explains the trips between Valdolid and Madrid from Monday to Thursday and young pollution: More and more people know people Implement these daily trips … and data supports your doubts.
It is 8.00 in the morning and the expatriate chamartín turns into a river of people when the first trains arrive in the morning. Up to 6,888 people daily on the Madrid-Valladide, According to the Renfe’s decision from the effect that was unloaded in medium -distance fertilizers daily by April 1 strike. This road is the most used daily at the national level and in 2024 it reached a record with More than 2.8 million trips, 4.2 % more than the previous yearAccording to Renfe’s data. This corridor follows the railway service in Madrid Toulido, with 5356 passengers, and thirdly, Madrid Portolino, with 3,830 subscribers. These three methods are those made in Ave or Avant, but some characters also emerge in the traditional medium-distance corridors: such as Madrid-Vitoria-Yirún, with many intermediate stations such as Burgos and Miranda de Ebro, which adds 937 passengers per day; Madrid-Jaén with a stop in Manzanars, 899 passengers add. Madrid-Karis-Badduz, with a stop in Talavera de la Reina, accumulates 642; And Madrid Portoluano, with an intermediate station in Sidad Real, records 488. There are 13 medium contestants who have the origin of the capital in the capital.
Nowadays, add Ave or Avant birds and a medium distance, 21,118 travelers are paid on these 16 roads. However, this trend did not happen from day to day and respond to social and demographic behaviors that follow a goal: Improving personal life quality with available resources. This is explained by Anna Contesto, a geographic geography of the University of Kwabotance in Madrid, which guarantees that, in recent years, society has changed regarding the place where people want to live. “In the nineties of the last century, the center stopped being attractive to people with money and preferred to go to live in Casas Grandes. This was a privilege. Now is the opposite. It only lives inside the M-30 who can pay for the rent or buy a house. This is a problem because workers who have less resources are expelled from the city where they work. The specialist explains: “Not only expels the ocean, but outside Madrid,” the specialist explains.
Therefore, the expert refuses to compensate for a lot of time in transportation daily and “free choice” because it is a “forced decision”: “It is not a commitment to transfer or success, It is due to the problem of rent and the cost of life“In addition, it indicates that the assistance of transportation or other initiatives is useful, but what should be solved is the main problem. In the same line, the transportation expert and easy access at the University of Trenti (Netherlands), Daniela Arias, who“ ordinary and health lives in the city in which it works, ”says, when travelers decide this matter, the quality of life is generated. the time”.
Up to 13 hours from the house until he returns
Sofia, when I was asked if she was tired of keeping her routine, The resignation responds that it was “used” because it was so since 2022. At 7.18 in the morning, leave his plane. In one day “where everything goes as planned and without delay,” which explains that it is often not usual, up to 8.10 to Madrid-Chamarten. But as soon as he arrives at the station, he takes the adjacent area to Méndez álvaro, which takes 35 minutes, and from there to his office. An hour and a half, but this is often extended up to two hours. Once your business day ends, take a car from participantWhich is pushed for a few minutes and an article with the mobile phone, to return to Chamartín because he does not trust in the vicinity “when you return home at stake.” Once he arrived at Chamartín, he climbs to the train at 18:40 and arrives at his home at 8:00 pm: 13 hours since he left in the morning.
The latest growth tests for this dynamic is the speed of which tickets are sold. A phenomenon Sophia speaks, but it is also Christina Ares, 25, Alwaleed, who also returns and returns every day from Valdolide. Specifically, he lives in the La Rondilla neighborhood and works in Alcobendas, “further” than he wants from Chamartín. “You have to buy it months ago because it flies. Since you are wrong, you lose it or want to change it is impossible,” explains the young woman. Sofia explains that You buy “fifty in fifty” Because “medium stops for the number of travelers.” Both use the most sought -after journey of Spain and benefiting from aid to transfer the ministry, and when they were asked whether their situation will change if they were terminated, they say they are “worth it.” Without subsidies, 200 euros will be spent a month, according to Christina accounts: “What is the rent with 200 euros in Madrid? Nothing”Demoted.
A sustainable life “thanks to work over the phone”
Also, two of the excesses coincide As this life rhythm is more susceptible to “thanks to the phone”. Sofia says that if I have two days of remote work instead of one, it will be a sustainable routine for a “half -long term”, but it indicates this about his specialization in sustainability, there is not much offered in birthroid, a position that reduces its capabilities. While Christina operates two days away and is not thinking of a long -term change: “Actually, I am thinking about buying a floor and moving with my partner.” However, he admits that, if he could not work remotely, “the rhythm will be not sustainable” and that the minimum work remotely for two days was a prerequisite in the last search for his job, This prompted him to reject many offers. The young woman was living in the capital during the university, but she was forced to leave the land and started traveling daily, but she became final after searching for the home “desperate and terrible”.
To talk about this phenomenon and its consequences, the delegate of urban planning, the environment and mobility in the Madrid City Council, Borja Carrabanti, to Al -Wafid in February to meet the Valdolide City Council. Both will conduct a study on the social and economic factors of the work of work between Al -Walid and Al -Madrid To analyze “the motives of the resident travelers In one of the cities that operate at least in at least one day, “the initiative is explained. The results of the study will allow initiatives to improve the quality of the life of these bikes travelers and public transportation …
Connect medium cities with big
It was this philosophy of facilitating the displacement process that was born with medium trains transportation and railway services “covering the average intermediate distances of regional traffic between the vicinity, the long distance and that long distance, and after its development they allowed to reduce travel times Among the population of medium size or communicating with a large city “As shown from Renf. The railway operator emphasizes that the demand for these services is similar to this in the vicinity of the reasons for the trip, which is determined in the reasons for work or study, and therefore, it is available, when calculating the minimum services needed in the strike contexts. Daily about 600 trains used by approximately 70,000 passengers, according to data of the last accuracy to hit April 1.
However, as experts are already exposed, “the quality of real life occurs when it lives as it works for reasons that reach free time, success and fatigue.” This was led by Felix Yabara, 31, and Joel Martinez, 28, To finish daily displacement. Felix of Cuenca and was traveling five days a week to Madrid at AVE from the end of the epidemic. Now, after his last striking, he managed to negotiate with his company to work 100 % at a distance. “I am low, but when I start working again, I know that I will make it strange to get three hours a day for my things,” he celebrates. Whereas, Joel decided to directly search for another job in Salamanca because “I cannot”: “In my new job, I won just less, but I am less tired, In a better humor, I resumed the gym and I was thinking so that I aim for German. You affect my mood. Now I see life in another way. ”
