High Speed Train between Barcelona and Madrid gets 50% of the passenger traffic between the two cities

Barcelona (ACN).- More than half of the people travelling between Barcelona and Madrid in the first six months of the year made their journey by High Speed Train (AVE), according to data released by the Spanish Ministry of Transport. 50.2% of the travellers between the two cities in the first half of 2012 used the AVE instead of their own car, a bus line or the airplane. They accounted 1.4 million people using this AVE line between January and June, which represents a 6.2% increase compared to the same period last year. In the whole of Spain, AVE lines increased their number of passengers by 6% as average in that period. Also, the Port of Barcelona was once again the leading passenger port in Spain. 905,000 people, including cruise passengers and passengers of regular ferry lines, went through the Catalan port between January and June, before the peak of the summer season.