Carlos Baño, chairman of the Alicante Chamber of Commerce, has requested the Spanish Government to expedite the deadlines for the rail link between Alicante and Elche with the airport. “The government cannot continue to punish the province of Alicante”Bath highlights in a statement after learning that the BOE has released the service tender this week to draft the project for phase I of the Torrellano Bypass, which will include access to the airport. The execution period is 38 months, so twenty-six years after the terminal exceeded 6 million passengers, there will be no work before 2026, a figure the EU recommends airports have a terminal railroad. Tenders will open in November.
“Extend until 2026 statement The project foresees another decade without a basic infrastructure for the development of the airport, providing a quality service to citizens and connecting with the main economic and tourist destinations in the province of Alicante.
Carlos Baño used these statements after learning the details of the tender made by Adif. Torrellano variant to connect to the airport. “Alicante and Elche constitute the first axis of the province’s socioeconomic development. It cannot be tolerated that they continue unconnected through the neighborhoods with the second and third cities of the Valencian Community and the airport,” he said.
Baño described it as “unacceptable” that Alicante-Elche airport, fifth in passenger volume in Spain, is the only airport of its level in all of Europe without a rail link. The president of the Alicante Chamber of Commerce demanded better treatment for the province. “Alicante is the fifth largest contributor to national GDP and we are number one. 50 per capita investment in 2022 General Government Budgets. And the deadlines determined by Adif represent another refusal for these lands that we cannot consent to,” he said. To remember,. In this sense, the Minister of Transport, Rachel Sanchez.
In this context, he recalled some of the pending cases that the Chamber, as well as the CEV, have been demanding for years. Dock 19 of the port of Alicantethe second runway of the airport, the electrification of the rail link between the port and the Mediterranean Corridor, or the rail link between Dénia, Alcoy and Torrevieja with the rest of the province.
The board of directors of CEV Alicante welcomes the start of the process of providing the necessary infrastructure to Alicante-Elche airport. rail linkbut at the same time, he thinks that the announced deadline for the preparation of the project until 2026 is too long, especially given that it is definitely a priority project for the province and its implementation has been delayed for many years.
President of CEV Alicante, Joaquin Pereznotes”IT joyfulit was important to start however, we will be very careful in setting deadlines and running business because we don’t want to settle for announcements if the reality is going to be different. We must say that if the project is realized, it can be reduced at least and conservatively, a year or even two. We cannot overlook the fact that we have arrived too late and have other much-needed infrastructure where this path has not yet begun.”.
State of Alicante openly discriminated against statewide That’s why both CEV and Alicante Chamber of Commerce launched a decade of required infrastructure in the state in 2019. This document is one of the priority axes of CEV Alicante and will leave its mark on the activities of the organization in the coming years, together with the defense of the water resources needed by the province, the necessary reforms in administrative agility and the increase in appropriations. regional and state budgets.
The Ministry of Transport goes ahead with or without specifying whether it is at the end. the airport will be connected to Alicante and Elche by rail. The ministry linked the link to the resolution of the call’s complementary studies more than two years ago Torrellano variant (85m euros) is also an important project for the removal of suburban train tracks from the city centre. first line of the sea. Works awarded in February 2020. Alright, two years and two months laterThe government admits that the alternative still has no project and has not decided whether it will eventually electrify the commuter line. Alicante-MurciaThe only train in Spain that continues with diesel trains.
The Ministry of Transport, formerly the Ministry of Development, has been playing cat and mouse with the rail link with Alicante-Elche airport since 2019, even released the public information file for the informative study of the “link branch between Alicante-Elche airport in the BOE. line and Variant of access to Alicante-Elche airportIt was noted that the airport will then be connected to Alicante AVE station and Elche by a 1.2 kilometer branch line that will depart from the existing suburban line in the Casas de Bonmatí area around the Alicante Trade Fair. Institution.