The mayor of Seville, Antonio Muñoz, assured this Wednesday that he has asked the Minister of Transport, Raquel Sánchez, to advance as much as possible in the works of the North section of the SE-40 that remains to be completed, from Aljarafe to La Rinconada , while the dilemma of the passage of the river in the Dos Hermanas-Coria section is resolved. This would allow this highway to be closed by the Arco Norte.
Speaking to the media, The socialist Antonio Muñoz opted this Wednesday for “letting the Ministry” of Transport work in the definition of the new construction project of the SE-40 of the river crossing between Dos Hermanas and Coria del Río, and pointed out that, beyond the “debate” on whether to replace the tunnels initially planned to save the Guadalquivir with bridges, it is necessary to “advance in parallel” in other sections not yet tendered and that lack “doubts” as to their technical design.
To the question of what are the plans of the Ministry of Transport regarding the SE-40, Muñoz explained that this proposal was already transferred to the Minister of Transport so that progress can be made in the drafting and bidding of projects lacking “doubts” on the technical level.. According to the mayor, the minister conveyed the “commitment to speed up” such actions.
“We will wait a reasonable period of time to return to the load” in said lawsuit, said the mayor, with the aim of “closing once and for all” the route of the SE-40.
The General State Budgets for 2022 allocate 31.6 million euros, above all to complete the North-Northwest arc of the second round: 15.3 million for the Espartinas (A-49)-Valencina de la Concepción (SE- 510) of 5.2 kilometers in length, and 15 million for the Valencina (SE-510)-Salteras (A-66) section, of 8.9 kilometers. This budget must be sufficient to tender the works. These are the sections whose regulatory update was contracted in 2020 by the Ministry of Transport, since both sections are intended to connect with the section between Almensilla and Espartinas, which was put into service in 2018.
over the river crossing
The SE-40 currently has 38 kilometers in service of the more than 77 of the projected route. The mayor of Seville pointed out that the debate on the SE-40 project should not focus on the question of the river crossing “over a tunnel or bridge”, but on “other sections not tendered” and He asked to be “a little patient” with the commissioned study on the passage of the river.
Muñoz recalled that the ministry is in charge of drafting a new informative study or preliminary project of solutions for the Dos Hermanas-Coria section that determines the convenience of a new design of longer tunnels, about five kilometers instead of 2.7 to overcome the river expansion zone; as well as four route alternatives for a possible bridge with a length of up to 6.5 kilometers.
Question to Congress
The VOX municipal group announces that the national deputy of VOX for Seville, Reyes Romero, works on the presentation of a series of questions to raise them at the table of the Congress of Deputies in relation to the definitive burial of the contract for the tunnels of the river crossing.
Romero condemns that “the Ministry of Transport has buried the tunnels of the SE-40 forever, wasting millions of euros that were already invested, and now subjecting the state to millions in compensation to the companies that started the work.” For the VOX deputy, it is “a new example of lousy socialist management, which costs Spaniards money and is dedicated to squandering what workers’ taxes generate with so much effort.” Apart from the economic waste, Romero questions the national government if “it has any solution for Seville, or is it going to continue condemning it to the infrastructures of the last century”.
For Romero, “the Government of Pedro Sánchez once again abandons Seville in its necessary improvement of infrastructures. Our province is anchored in the last century, since Expo 92 neither socialists nor popular have worried about gradually modernizing a strategic area at the provincial and Andalusian level.
VOX recalls that in 2001 it became clear that the execution of a bridge would not comply with environmental regulations, which worries VOX since, faced with a Government “without answers or solutions, Seville loses strategic competitiveness with many companies that decide to leave for other cities such as Valencia due to the lack of infrastructure”, denounces Romero.
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