On Tuesday, September 15, it became another day of despair for Cercanías users in Valencia. At 5:52 a.m., a message on the Cercanías WhatsApp channel announced an electrification failure at the North station. Less than three hours later, trains on lines C-1, C-2, C-3 and C-6 began to suffer delays of up to 50 minutes. Some passengers had to board a single train carrying two full convoys. “We had to put the passengers from two trains into one,” they denounced from the ground. The incident, which lasted until 8:24 a.m., left thousands of people trapped in a daily odyssey that is no longer an exception, but a routine. Mayor María José Catalá did not hesitate: “It is unsustainable.” In her X profile, she repeated the phrase that has already become the slogan of protest: “Valencia is being mistreated.” The criticism is not limited to the management of Renfe, but points to the central government. Catalá accused the Ministry of Transport of selling trains withdrawn from Madrid as if they were a “reinforcements”, when in reality they are recycled convoys that do not solve the problem. “They sold us a ‘reinforcement’ as if we had to thank for the crumbs,” she wrote. The figure of accumulated delays so far this year is overwhelming: 113,722 minutes, equivalent to 78 days, 23 hours and 22 minutes. More than two months lost on trains that never arrive on time. Although the Ministry of Transport celebrates investments in Catalonia – 2,962 million executed in the first half of 2026 – in Valencia the collapse continues. The city not only loses time, but also sees how road traffic on its access roads increases. “The reality is still the same: a chaos that ends up collapsing the access roads to Valencia as well,” warned Catalá. And the users, tired, do not keep quiet. On social networks, they share photos of wagons overflowing, especially on lines C1 and C2, where the 6:25 train from l’Alcúdia did not leave, and the one from Gandia at 7:10 arrived simply and with old wagons. “We are in Cullera and it is already full, without seats from Gandia,” recounted a passenger. The suffering does not end with the delay: it is also the emotional wear and tear. Every morning, the clock marks the beginning of a new battle against the system. And this time, the cry was not of protest, but of desperation: “Valencia does not deserve this treatment.”