The general secretary of the PSOE in Lorca, Diego Ferra, today called on the Mayor of the PP, Jódar Francisco, a ruling "loud and clear" about the Council's commitment to the burial of the AVE as it passes through the city.
Also been required to use this time on Monday maintained that the Minister of Public Works, José Blanco, and the president of the autonomous region, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, to conclude a final agreement on this case because, otherwise, Lorca is the only large population where it is undefined the issue of burial.
In that sense, Ferra recalled that last November 9 in the Official Gazette published a collaboration agreement between the Government of Andalusia, the city of Almería, ADIF and RENFE-Operator for urban integration of the railway in the capital Almeria.
This is the same model has been used in the protocols for the burial of the AVE in Murcia and Cartagena, signed in 2006.
Therefore, Ferra regretted that Lorca has become the "red lantern" around the Mediterranean corridor, which blamed the "bad management Jódar Francisco."
In line with the general secretary of the PSOE in Lorca said that if the City of the Sun had a socialist mayor "long ago that the issue of burial would be solved."
However, after the arrival of Jódar for mayor, he has been unable to progress in the negotiations that left the former socialist mayors started, and today, "do not know what it is willing to provide the City Council, because that depends how many kilometers underground, and when. "
Protocol on the underground in Almeria, agreed to the establishment of a company with representation from the three parties will face an investment that will cost 244 million euros.
Of these, the Ministry of Development will provide 97.46 million euros (it would cost to spend the AVE on the surface), the Andalusian town hall 18 and 30, and financed the remainder of the cost of actions - some 98.4 million Euro-through funds generated by land use and urban loads.
Source: PSOE Lorca