On Monday, seven years of unfulfilled promises regarding the arrival of the High Speed Railway in Elche ends. The Minister of Transport announced yesterday the imminent sale of tickets and the inauguration of the infrastructure that will start without access, without public transport that connects it with the city and without signage. In addition, road infrastructures such as the Ronda Sur, which would alleviate the interconnection with this area of the municipality, still has no end date.
San José has been very critical of this situation “we were sold a beautiful project for a station with 4,200 m2 destined for a lobby, commercial area, customer service, left-luggage office, departure lounge, facilities area and railway use premises, equipped with 400 m of platform, of which more than 100 were going to be covered by a common envelope to the building … All of this was replaced by a simple halt “also San José recalled that” the road connections with the city remain the same and what is more worryingly, the millions of regional rail investment are going to Alicante to expand its TRAM line to the north, without the union with Elche appearing in any project “
The president of CONTIGO stated that “for residents in the eastern part of the city, it is more practical to go to Alicante than to Matola to catch the AVE. Now it also seems that trains must pass through Alicante before going to Madrid, which once again represents a new contempt for our city ”San José wanted to explain that“ this project of having two AVE stations in Alicante and Elche makes no sense being able to have built a big one in the airport connecting by rail the center of both cities. It would have been much more economical and effective, but it was opted for waste and duplication “
WITH YOU Elche hopes that the mayor of the city will forget his political partisanship and put the interests of the city first by asking the Government to finalize the accesses and the promised road and rail infrastructure.
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