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Last week was unanimously approved by the Board of Directors of Cartagena Alta Velocidad, a proposal from the neighbors backed in full, to suspend the project of the Ministry of Development for the arrival of the AVE to Cartagena on the surface.

And today, just five days later, the technicians of ADIF, a public entity dependent on the Ministry, have already visited the city to study the possible new route.

A visit that has consisted of a tour of the lands through which the High Speed ​​would have arrived and in which they have been accompanied by the mayor, Ana Belén Castejón, the government delegate, Diego Conesa, the president of the Federation of Associations de Vecinos, Leandro Sánchez, and, on behalf of the businessmen, the president of COEC, Pedro Pablo Hernández.

"It shows once again that we have a responsible government in Spain, which has shown agility in terms of our requests," said the mayor, stressing that with what is decided today you can work and move forward, "in short, is what citizens want, that politicians do more and talk less. "

The delegate of the Government, on the other hand, highlighted the "consensus with the neighbors", as one of the foundations of this project, "this is an action in which there is hardly anything done, we must work on actions that improve communications with Cartagena, authentic industrial focus, not only the arrival of the AVE, the rail freight connection with Europe and the rest of Spain have to be guaranteed in the medium and long term, and there are also the neighborhoods, absolute priority of the government of Spain ".

With regard to dates, Conesa has advanced that "the planning as a whole of the arrival of the AVE to the Region, including Cartagena, we want it to be with the roadmap marked in mid-September."

Leandro Sánchez, who thanked the Ministry of Development for its speed in sending its technicians to study the layout, recalled that this is a participatory process, "for the first time the proposals and demands of the neighbors have been taken into account. with the division of the city by the railway barriers, with an intermodal station it will be possible to end this separation of some depressed districts of the municipality ".

Finally, the head of COEC has valued this visit and reiterated that "for the business world the priority is the term of the arrival of the AVE to Cartagena, in addition to its integration in the city, and we hope that the study of the route will be do in the shortest possible time and we do not go much further than the planned date, end of 2021. "

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena