Two top transportation officials in Spain are out of a job over a hard-to-fathom gaffe: They ordered the construction of new trains too wide to fit in the nation's old railway tunnels. Isaias Taboas, head of rail operator Renfe, and Isabel Pardo de Vera, secretary of state for transport, have resigned over the mistake, reports the BBC. The good news is that the manufacturer building the trains discovered the measurement error early enough to keep the government from losing its $275 million investment in the 30 or so new commuter trains, per the Guardian. However, the mistake brought a halt to construction and will result in a two-year delay in the trains' delivery.
It's a "monumentally botched job," says the head of the regional government in Cantabria, Miguel Angel Revilla, per DW. Both Cantabria and another region in the north, Asturias, have railway tunnels winding through the mountains that date back to the 19th century and are not as wide as modern tunnels. Two other lesser-ranking officials were fired last month, when the mistake first came to light. The government says it will conduct an investigation to figure out how the plan got designed and approved. (More Spain stories.)
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