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The Municipal Socialist Group spokesman, Manuel Soler, has warned "the loss of specific gravity of Lorca in the claims that have to do with the Mediterranean rail corridor as it passes through the municipality."

Soler has reported that "on 3 March, the Eagles held a meeting in protest over the railway which was attended by the mayor of this municipality, mayors of Baza, Cuevas de Almanzora and Pulpí, council of Puerto Lumbreras and Cantoria, Secretary General also Ferrmed, Joan Amorós. However, there is no evidence that the Mayor of Lorca participate in this meeting. "

"This appointment in the city aimed aquiline try to boost the Mediterranean corridor in the area, to provide more competitive products, and the possibility of having an intermodal station in one of the municipalities of the districts involved" Lorca has said the mayor.

Miras Soler added that "his aides were summoned to a second meeting was held last April in Baza, which it seems that neither the Mayor of Lorca attended and which claimed the reopening of the railway line Lorca Guadix Baza-by municipalities in the regions of Baza, Huéscar, Guadix, Velez and the Almanzora Valley. "

The Socialist leader stressed that "institutional representatives of the municipalities involved, as well as trade unions UGT and CCOO, Federation of Business and Chambers of Commerce of Almeria and Granada and Cartagena Port Authority, signed the so-called 'Letter of Baza' to for the reopening of the línea.En the document is considered "essential" to include in the Mediterranean Corridor, from Lorca, a communication with Almeria, to output the important fruit and vegetable production in this territory also has a significant population density and to recover the historic railroad route from Murcia to Granada, Baza. The cost of the line, 152, 7 miles, is 1,080 million euros. The section of the route would use old and new layout areas . In total, made necessary the construction of four tunnels and fourteen bridges. In all studies the line would be profitable. "

Jodar, offside

Councilman Lorca regretted "the lack of leadership from the Mayor of Lorca right now that the European Commission is seeking the Government of Spain the project to define the final route of this railway axis joining the Trans-European Transport Network. Indeed , yesterday met in Murcia the Minister of Public Works and Planning, Antonio Sevilla, and Joan Amoros, general secretary of Ferrmed, an organization that intends to submit shortly to the Minister of Development, Ana Pastor, a technical study of the Mediterranean Corridor including the reopening of the Lorca-Baza, a double connection to Almendricos a Murcia, Almeria and the coast of Algeciras and another line is also joint deputation to the transverse axis lorquina Andalusian, which means "to go Murcia to Seville in a few hours. "

The Socialist politician said that "Jodar has lost" all interest "in this matter since Mariano Rajoy reached the Moncloa. In fact, with the previous Socialist government, Jodar did not hesitate to travel to Brussels to demand that the future Trans-European Network Transport included the Mediterranean as specific rail corridor for freight with European gauge. However, says Soler-Lorca mayor has lost "suddenly" the spirit of protest because he knows that now depends on the willingness of Rajoy inclusion of the branches between Guadix-Baza-Almendricos and between Almendricos and Lorca in the Mediterranean Corridor project. "

Manuel Soler has finished asking the mayor Lorca "no putting back," as it does in many other issues, "his party's interest above that of the Lorca and reminds him that the City of the Sun should lead this issue."

Source: PSOE Lorca