THE BOE collects the land to be expropriated in order to eliminate the level crossing of the Cruise

The Official State Gazette of yesterday, Saturday, February 20, included the announcement of the Railway Infrastructure Administrator (ADIF) by which the Construction Project for the Suppression of the Level Crossing is submitted to public information for the purposes of declaring the need for occupation from kilometer point 456/727 of the Madrid-Hendaye Line, that is, to suppress the level crossing of the Cruise.

This important step forward will entail the expropriation of more than 70,000 square meters of 72 different owners, land on which the new connection of the neighborhood with the NI will be built.

Now, once the list has been published in the BOE, the owners of these lands have fifteen working days to present possible allegations. To the lands that will be expropriated, there are another almost 7,500 that correspond to easements (about 4,100) and those of temporary occupation (almost 3,400), which will be ‘occupied’ during the duration of the works.

The elimination of the last existing level crossing in the city is a project long demanded by the residents of Miranda (especially, logically, those of El Crucero) and a priority for the Government Team, as the mayor has reflected on more than one occasion , Aitana Hernando. It was in 1999 when the agreement signed between ADIF and the City Council was committed to its elimination, but it is now when it seems that the project seems to finally enter its final stretch. A meeting held in the last weeks of 2020 marked the final agreement, establishing the investment to be made by ADIF at 4.4 million euros to connect El Crucero and the NI, eliminating the level crossing. The City Council, for its part, undertook to bear the cost of the expropriations that the BOE collected yesterday, calculating an amount of 98,000 euros.

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