The Development minister, Íñigo de la Serna , has guaranteed today that the works on the Extremaduran section of the new railway with Madrid will be completed in the summer of 2019 and fully electrified in 2020, which will save a trip of an hour and a half between Badajoz and Madrid.
In response at the control session to the attached spokesperson for Unidos Podemos Ione Belarra, who has denounced the state of the train in Extremadura, more typical of the 19th century and of the protagonists of the Holy Innocents of Miguel Delibes , De la Serna has denied that the situation is “as it looks” We can.
“You have a profound ignorance of what we are doing in Extremadura,” assured the minister, who has put the investments at 3,880 million euros .
By contrast, the representative of Podemos has assured that the Government has run out of “excuses” which has caused the citizens of Extremadura to take to the streets in demand for a “decent” railway in a mobilization comparable to that of 11M , as it was lived on November 18 in Madrid.
“They have not put any facts on the table, everything remains the same,” denounced Belarra, who insisted that the trip between Madrid and Badajoz continues to last five and a half hours, as long as there is no breakdown.
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This has been denied by the Minister of Public Works, who has detailed all the actions in progress and which will reduce travel times.
He explained that the section between Toledo and Oropesa is already being worked on with an investment of 1,120 million euros, and has specified that between the latter town and Plasencia there is already a section of platform executed and another in execution.
Between Plasencia and Badajoz the road between Cáceres and Mérida has been laid and the lane between Mérida and Badajoz is being laid, a work that will end in March, the month in which the double road between Plasencia and Cáceres will be approved, with an investment of 1,470 million euros for that section.
In addition, as De la Serna reported, a new Talgo service with Extremadura will be launched in March, whose tickets can be purchased from December.
“Welcome to the commitment to the train”, the Minister of Public Works has proclaimed, adding that today there will be “bad news” for the Navarra deputy of Podemos, since the first tender for the section of the Navarrese train, a railway, will be authorized the one who has opposed “so forcefully” Podemos in the local community.
SOURCE: EL PERIÓDICO EXTREMADURA.COM
