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“What started as something local, ended up being a fight for everyone”: Murcia buries the train tracks | Hour 25 | Present

Thirty years of struggle. The residents of Murcia have become the best example of how the citizen’s struggle can fulfill its objective: after so much, the train tracks in Murcia begin to go underground. It is a historical claim, which arises from the need not to separate the southern neighborhoods from the rest of the city. Now, the first section of the tunnel that will make the train pass below the surface has been completed so that, finally, the neighbors can pass over it.. We spoke with the protagonists in ‘Hora 25’ with Pepa Bueno.

“What at first was a more local mobilization, became something more general with neighbors from other neighborhoods and other cities, it was not a young profile, it was very broad. Of older people, who were not afraid to face what he did. It is necessary to stop this injustice “, tells us Antonio Hernández, a member of the pro-burial platform. “It was an odyssey, practically living in a mousetrap, now we just need the AVE to arrive, it is a matter of months,” he says. “The medals are from the neighborhood and we will fight so that no one takes them”, Vicky Barba tells us, also from this platform.


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