Infrastructure Secretary states that "regional and local governments shamelessly lie on the high speed. Everything shows that those most responsible for the high performance train has not reached Cartagena and to be ruled in the future, are Pilar Barreiro and PP deputy Andres Ayala "
The local secretary of the PSOE Infrastructure, Aniceto Garcia, described as "Machiavellian and indecent" constantly shifting lock, since 2001, the project has suffered from high speed to Cartagena.
"The project is in the hands of policy makers of the PP, which has caused numerous delays until, at present, the total disengagement of the Government of Valcárcel to something so vital to the regional economy as is the arrival of the AVE to town departmental ".
To witness the statements, the secretary of the PSOE in Cartagena Infrastructure has prepared an outline of the major events around this project to improve rail infrastructure in the region of Cartagena:
January 2001, the Government of Spain (PP)
Meeting of the Ministry of Development, chaired by Álvarez Cascos, José Bono, Alberto Ruiz Gallardón, Eduardo Zaplana and Ramón Luis Valcárcel.
He remembers the arrival of the AVE for lift end in the city of Murcia.
Cartagena does not exist in the project.
On this date the union UGT and PSOE complain that the resolution adopted by the People's Party would lead the delay in the arrival of the AVE in Cartagena, because its natural path would be via Chinchilla.
Neither the City of Cartagena and the Autonomous demanded that the AVE project discurriera its natural path, which was the first of the long delays that prevented today we are certain to have high speed in Cartagena .
June 2006, the Government of Spain (PSOE)
The Development Minister, Magdalena Álvarez, the regional president Ramón Luis Valcárcel, the mayor of Cartagena Pilar Barreiro, and the then President of ADIF, Antonio González, have signed the Cartagena Speed ​​for High Society.
This is the first documented occurrence reflected the decision of the arrival of the AVE to the city of Cartagena as the end point of the path.
Relations are implemented equally between administrations and signatories to adapt rail access to Cartagena, which includes urban integration broker.
The Company High Speed ​​Cartagena SA, comprises protocol participants participating in the financing and execution of works in Cartagena.
The estimated cost: 32.8 million euros, of which the Ministry of Development would provide 12, the regional government and the city 1.45 0.63.
The remaining amount, 18.7 million euros, would be chargeable to capital gains of urban operation.
From 2006 to 2010, there was a significant delay in the project AVE access to the city of Cartagena motivated by the delay in delivery by the Consistory of the city of 20,000 square meters needed to execute the planning around the season and whose gains calculated at 18.7 million euros, would allow the execution of all works of hits, remodeling and burying roads, as agreed by Pilar Barreiro in June 2006, with the signing of the Society for High Speed Cartagena.
Recall that is the end of 2010 when it introduced the Urban Development Plan for the area.
October 2009.
Regional Government (PP)
The Minister of Public Works, José Ballesta publicly announced that the Ministry of Public Works had taken the request of the Community and the City of Cartagena, to opt for the arrival of the AVE to Cartagena for the tunnel through the Sierra de Carrascoy, stopping at the International Airport Corvera.
That is, the most expensive of the three submitted to the Government by the then Regional Development Minister, José Blanco.
This decision constituted the largest delay in the arrival of the AVE in Cartagena.
Both the Minister of Public Infrastructure as responsible for the PSOE in Cartagena (Aniceto Garcia) recommended to the Autonomous unsuccessfully plotting posed by the advent of the current high-speed railway, crossing Murcia, Balsicas, Torre Pacheco and Cartagena .
This route was not for real socialists support the Campo de Cartagena.
Year 2010, Government of Spain (PSOE)
In this year's first contract was awarded to the UTE-MACIAS INTEMAZ MELGAREJO CARIBERSA and a second, in order to build a route of 1.1 kilometers, almost entirely underground, until the new station will be in the same place the current.
Furthermore, it is expected to project a branch called 'Platform 400 meters' also underground, two-way, and a temporary ramp that runs Iberian gauge size for conventional services guarantee for the execution of works.
April 2011, the Government of Spain (PSOE)
The Ministry of Development, through ADIF, wins the drafting basic platform via the railway network in the city d Cartagena towards their adaptation to the advent of high speed this city.
The contract is the necessary step subsequent phase of work of the RAF (Railway Network) consists of Cartagena and the drafting of the information referred to in previous studies conducted by the Ministry of Development.
As this investment is financed entirely by the Company High Speed, Pilar Barreiro and a member of the regional government were fully aware of all these projects developed so far, since they were members of that public company.
From 2011 until today.
Government of Spain (PP)
There has been no movement in the execution of works in Cartagena, none of the three administrations, governed by the PP, have given the project viability, on the contrary, the crisis blamed as a cause of delayed indefinitely.
In contrast, the city of Murcia will AVE in late 2014, or even earlier, since the works are apace, and the City Council has achieved what you requested speed train and underground to the Carmen Murcia.
The UGT union requested more than 10 years ago that this same season the desplazasen to Espinardo to thereby give the trains departure from Cartagena and Lorca, without having to make any move as currently happens, and thus not harm Cartagena infrastructures.
But, "it is clear that the mayor has struggled slightly when rail infrastructure has faced his government and party."
In August 2012, the PP government and Minister of Public Works, Antonio Sevilla, now say the route east, proposed by the Ministry of Development is offering more benefits and enables better integrate passenger traffic and freight.
"The question is why they did not accept more than six years ago, when we proposed. Would because then the central government was not of their political and had to put up barriers and deceive the citizens of Cartagena and its region" insists Garcia Rojas.
For socialists of Cartagena, "the mayor is responsible, along with the regional government of leaving Cartagena outside these infrastructures. Within no more than two years we are going to take the high-speed trains and long distance to the city Murcia because this will not be necessary, since we will close by. Lords of demagoguery PP and let yourself take once and with shame responsibilities have left Cartagena and disappear off the Mediterranean Basin region in travelers and goods. "
Source: PSOE Cartagena