Madrid-Barcelona AVE High-Speed Train Carries 33 Million Passengers
in First Six Years in OperationRENFE this month reports that its AVE high-speed rail network service along the Madrid-Zaragoza-Barcelona corridor has transported a total of 33.355 million passengers, with an average of nearly 5.56 million passengers annually, during its six years in business. The high-speed train line connecting Madrid and Barcelona was inaugurated on February 20, 2008, with 17 trains daily in each direction; progressively, the number of