Puig announces highway toll reduction and subsidy of desalinated water for irrigation

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heat Vega Baja It launched Ximo Puig’s commitment to definitively consider the highway toll reduction. Torrevieja pFor the residents of the area at the meeting organized by INFORMATION about the future of the area. Moreover, Head of Consell and candidate for reaffirmation by PSPV Generalitat announced it would “soon” approve the additional subsidy for desalinated water for irrigation, a commitment it has been waiting for since last January. The reduced price will be close to what irrigators currently pay for the cubic meter of water transferred from the factory. Tagus-Segura, 0.27 euros.

Entrepreneurs participating in the Vega Baja Forum discussion organized by INFORMACIÓN at the Ateneo Casino de Orihuela.

The businessmen, who are representatives of most of the main companies that support residential tourism, which is the engine of the regional economy, once again focused on acquiring the infrastructures that have been demanded for decades to structure the region and improve the mobility in the territory of the region. Safe Under It will benefit not only residential tourism but also the residents of the region. Among them, Split of CV-95 between Torrevieja and Orihuela, with variant of Nacional 332 passing through Torrevieja or between that of CV-91 orihuela And Regeneration of coasts and effective management on the ground in the face of current setback by the Segura Hydrographic Confederation (CHS) of Guardamar, riverbed and mouth. They pointed out that it was a “patch” to propose reproducing the CV-95 in sections, and recalled that the only way to reach Orihuela Costa from the inside was a street in the urban area of ​​Torrevieja.

Puig said moving forward with the negotiation to reach consensus among the affected municipalities because not everyone takes on the project equally and the way to prepare the environmental impact report is to bid for projects in sections.

Francisco Gomez, Antonio Soria and Juan Ramon Gil.

Capacity shortages at gas stations came into discussion. sewage treatment and management’s slowness in addressing solutions. And some companies, citing the Orihuela Costa water treatment plant as an example, warned that the delay in addressing them could create problems of some magnitude, with consequences for the tourism industry, especially in the coastal region. ten years after the execution project was approved.

Ximo Puig, Manuel Martínez Ortuño, Francisco Marcos, Francisco Gómez and Enrique Riquelme.

will not be saved

in relation to the road Alicante-Cartagena, Puig admitted that the Generalitat would not consider saving the road because, unlike the action on the Mediterranean highway, it was many years before the concession was taken. What it provides is on the table, and the Government has considered reducing this toll, one of the highest in Spain compared to the 13 kilometers it covers, at the expense of, for example, Consell being financed by different formulas. to its inhabitants. The businessmen had no impact on road infrastructure claims, which focused solely on residential tourism displacement or the mobility of those arriving in the area from the airport. Elche- Alicante Miguel Hernandezalso to the thousands of workers who moved inland to the shores of Vega Baja.

From a business point of view, the beach renovation issue has centered on the “third world” image that Babilonia beach in Guardamar currently presents. Puig pointed out to Costas that he had firmly suggested that the Community of Valencia could share powers over the management of the coast, and explained that he should do so to carry out an emergency dredging of the mouth of the old channel of the Segura river. We are committed to funding with CHS.

Tomás Mayoral, Antonio José Quesada and Manuel Alarcón.

Businessmen have acknowledged Puig’s presence in the south of the Valencian Community, noted for more than fifty visits he brought the head of the Generalitat closer to Vega Baja during his eight-year tenure, but they think the region is. it is invisible to have a rail link connecting the coast inland and the coast to the north and the airport.

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Puig said that “tram projects for both connections will be defined in the coming months” and used, in its most political tone, a survey of enormous symbolic value for the PSPV-PSOE candidate, which accounts for more than half of de la Vega’s residents. Baja already “feels Spanish and Valencian”.

Something “unusual”, he said, because “The number of Vega Baja citizens who feel completely Hispanic fell by 33 points.” He confirmed that Vega Baja is a priority for Generalitat, making “the largest deployment in this region in its 40-year history”. He presented data on the millionaire investments made in La Vega during this period and said he repeated it like a mantra every time he visited it: €750 million after what he saw as a real turning point in Vega Baja’s relationship with the rest of the Community. , DANA of September 2019. In his view, Vega made it possible to transform the “catastrophic meeting” that “spiked the emotional and regional chasm” between Baja and the rest of the Valencian Community.

Less than four weeks into the 28M election, Puig said, “Things are not easy and I didn’t come here to create expectations that I know will not be met, you must always be honest with yourself and others.”

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