José Aix, Ciudadanos candidate for Mayor of Orihuela and current deputy mayor and councilor for Urban Planning and Heritage, put forward two proposals he had in his election program for the 28 May elections: to create a southern ring road for the city on the metro road and pedestrian on the AVE route. gateway.
Both measures have been registered in Congress through Juan Ignacio López-Bas, an MP from Oriolan, who filed a lawsuit against the Government to review the transfer of the metro road, a road belonging to the Kasa Hydrographic Confederation, to the City Council (CHS), and it serves as follows: Detour to Tajo-Segura transferruns parallel to it.
The two leaders explained the advisability of adapting this road to the standards of a public road by CHS; this is what actually happens the moment vehicular traffic is allowed from the N-340 to the CV-915. After the AVE crossing works, we cross the del Segura canal once again in front of the Puente Alto industrial area, connecting the railway south to the Consistory with the road already abandoned by ADIF and providing an exit towards CV-930 and back onto the N-340.
“about unclog urban space Not forgetting “the pending promises of the city, such as the AVE footbridge”,” Aix insisted, “to create a southern bypass that would prevent road traffic from having to make its way from Orihuela to Murcia or Alicante on the N-340, so that a “friendlier and more accessible We propose realistic solutions for structuring the city,” he added.
In this sense, he stressed that “having an assistant like López-Bas in Madrid who knows exactly what we are asking for and what we are offering is an advantage not only for Ciudadanos but for all Oriolanos”.
Therefore, López-Bas requested a definitive response from the Government from ADIF regarding the construction of the pedestrian crossing on the railway, which was undertaken by the railway infrastructure manager in January 2018. 900.000 €.
The MP returns to demand this infrastructure, which is necessary to connect the urban area to Correntías in an accessible way and should have already been handed over to the Oriolan administration. However, it is still not a reality after it was announced in May 2022. abandoned the tender for the job.
In a speech to Congress in October 2022, López-Bas emphasized that the chairman of ADIF had taken his explicit commitment to “accelerate a new tendering procedures through a review of contract prices”. He concluded his words by saying, “The internal instruction that we have not heard from for 7 months.”