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The City Council and ADIF (Railway Infrastructure Manager, Ministry of Public Works) have reached an agreement after their meeting yesterday in Madrid, which unlocks the proposed burial of the high-speed upon his arrival in Cartagena and the construction of new train station on the grounds of the present.

The spokesman of the government team and Town Planning, Joaquín Segado, explained the terms of these agreements, which the City Council agrees to approve an amendment to the General Urban Plan to provide approximately 65,000 square meters of floor area for ADIF, in exchange for the financing of this project by the state agency.

This means increasing by 20,000 square meters surface that initially had been determined, which was 46,800 meters, 80 percent residential and 20 percent commercial. The reason, Mowing, this increase in the municipal contribution is due to are aware of the budgetary effort has to ADIF, since the project was budgeted at just under 40 million, now stands at 90 million.

The initial approval of the amendment of General Plan in this regard will be held in the coming weeks, with the intention that it be flexible, so that prime time is all the rail project.

For its part, ADIF is committed to the bid also shortly drafting of the construction projects of the new train station.

Mowing did not want to venture to give dates, when the project will know the real cost of the work and, from there, we can talk of deadlines, said while recalling the request to publish a Development informative study of the Murcia-Cartagena route, a precursor for the preparation of projects, request we made one and a half ago.

In addition to this important action to improve the infrastructure of the city, Joaquín Segado has highlighted two major projects are already underway and will make reference to Cartagena: Via Verde del Barrio Peral, a large green area and a walk to be completed for next spring, and the Archaeological Park of Cerro del Pinwheel, whose completion depends, in this case, the excavations being carried out in the area and help bring out to light important findings.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena