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Two experts analyze this afternoon the problem of rail in our region, the vicinity that could be adversely affected by the arrival of high speed, and the need to put Lorca in the European Basic Network of Rail Transport

28.02.18.

The Local Coordinator of IU-V, Pepe García Murcia and the Municipal Spokesman of that formation, Pedro Sosa, advanced this morning to the media the content of the round table that this afternoon, at 20 hours, will take place in the House del Huerto Ruano with the railway as the protagonist.

They did it by presenting one of the speakers, José Luis Ordóñez, railway journalist, railway policy expert and former General Director of Mobility of the Junta de Andalucía.

Along with JL Ordóñez this afternoon, Antonio del Campo, a railroad worker and, until recently, a member of the Board of Directors of RENFE on behalf of the workers, will also intervene.

After a few brief interventions by Sosa and García Murcia focused on Lorca, on the problem of better integration of the railway in the city, on the shortcomings of the suburban service that joins us with Murcia and Águilas and on the need for the reconnection of Lorca with Andalusia, closed in the eighties of last century, José Luis Ordóñez has focused his message on the need not to lose a second for Lorca to be part of the European Basic Network of Rail Transport, which will certainly have a European budget for it and that its materialization is part of the need to reduce greenhouse gases by up to 60% by 2050.

In the opinion of the expert, this network requires several conditions: existence of double track, electrification of the same and mixed traffic system for people and goods.

That must be the demand of Lorca, and if the local and regional governments do not bet on it from now we can find ourselves in the medium term with two problems, besides the own one of the integration of the railroad in the city of Lorca, which, as happens in the city of Murcia, could leave Lorca in two, could seriously damage the commuter service that joins us with the city of Murcia.

Ordoñez has given figures indicating that in Spain, every day, there are 2 million people using commuter trains and regional trains in front of 23,000 people who use the AVE per day.

This being so, and extrapolating those numbers to the outskirts of Murcia, it would be an antisocial catastrophe that the effort to bring the AVE had as harmed the thousands of people who use commuter service and regional trains daily, when in addition, both some like others are part of the railway public service obligations and involve the general budgets of the State.

Lastly, he criticized the fact that the state and regional governments are working diligently to project the railway in this area and without taking into account in important aspects the European guidelines with the consequences that this may have for the citizens of our land, for the suburban services or for the integration of railways in cities.

Source: IU-verdes Lorca