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The plenary session of the City of Cartagena, chaired by the mayor, Ana Belén Castejón, has approved this morning unanimously an institutional declaration on the arrival of high speed and its integration into the muinicipio.

It is agreed to transfer to the Board of Directors of the Cartagena Alta Velocidad SA Society the need to prepare a technical proposal for remodeling the railway arterial network of the municipality of Cartagena.

This proposal should not generate walls that divide the municipality in two, or strangle the growth of the city and its neighborhoods and councils, and should bet on intermodality.

Likewise, it is urged to include the elimination of the steps at the level of La Palma-Pozo Estrecho;

Alumbres;

Vista Alegre and Los Mateos;

and the commitment that the rail line will not cross any population center and that the FEVE line will be removed as it passes through Vista Alegre and Los Mateos, transferring the FEVE station to that of Víctor Beltrí.

This technical proposal should also include the following needs program:

a) Remodeling and protection of the Cartagena station building, adapting it to the performance of a high-speed line and intermodality.

b) Access to the Cartagena station by a new rail corridor that runs through the east of the city of Cartagena, integrating the Railway Arterial Network to the urban development forecasts of Cartagena, by burying those sections that run through the ground urban and urbanizable.

c) Possibility of rail access to the future Logistics Activities Area of ​​the Los Camachos Industrial Area.

d) Connection with the industrial zone of the Escombreras Valley and construction of a variant to the urban center of Alumbres to avoid the current passage of dangerous goods.

e) Temporal optimization of the processing procedure, coordinating it with the action of High Speed ​​Connection Murcia-Cartagena.

f) Expansion of the passenger and merchandise lines from Beniel to Cartagena due to the current and planned traffic.

Finally, the Board of Directors of the Cartagena Alta Velocidad SA Society is invited to convene a meeting to analyze the proposed modification of the railway arterial network of the municipality of Cartagena and the Cartagena station, indicated in the previous sections. , and its comparison with the proposal of the Informative Study of the Remodeling Project of the railway arterial network of the city of Cartagena as well as with the proposal of the agreement of the Board of Directors of the Cartagena High Speed ​​SA Society of May 28, 2018.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena