Porto-Vigo high-speed link is the “most important” link between Portugal and Spain
The director affirmed the “delay of the link of the railspeed of no return” and today “delay of the link of the high speed of no return” and today “through the high importance”.
“Portugal has to understand the work here on the railroad and on high as a last chance. It cannot be some kind of stone raft. All the time that is lost in the connection of the Portuguese railroad at high speed to the Spanish network is a time of no return. This is a decisive time”, stated Rui Teixeira, quoted in a note sent to the press regarding his intervention in a meeting in Ourense, Galicia.
The head of the EGTC Cooperation Group) Rio Mgrupando the Importance of the Territorial Connection as “the most important between the cities of Porto and Vigo, in terms of traffic volume, surpasses the Lisbon-Madrid connection”,
Socialist Rui Teixeira, who is also mayor of Vila Nova de Vila Nova, said “it will be incomprehensible even if steps are pending in 2022”.
“The links between Portugal and Spain, more specifically between Portugal and Galicia, are vital and never sufficient. High speed is a guarantee of the quality of life and improving the economy of citizens, ensuring the quality of the economy and the citizens’ forum”,[comboio de alta velocidade] Madrid – Ourense: A road to Galicia: challenges and opportunities’, held today at Expourense.
Rui Teixeira, the Portuguese speaker invited to address the “uninstant” importance of the “delivery link between Portugal and Spain, and “sharing territory” the experience of the North of Portugal-Ga cross-border, highlighted that he has “successively postponed the need to regionalize the country”. , which resulted in asphyxiating macrocephaly”.
“This macrocephaly culminates in the absence of investments for capital, for example, in the almost eternal postponement of high-speed lines”, quoted in the note sent by the Vila Nova de Cerveira Chamber.
The forum, which was attended by several Spanish government entities, marked the start of Spanish high-speed traffic between Madrid and Ourense.
The first AVE between Madrid and the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain, arrived at A Gudiña station, in Ourense, on the 21st of December.
The maiden voyage will take place with the presence of the King of Spain, Philip VI, and the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sanchéz, at around 02:15.
During his speech, in the presence of the president of the Junta de Galicia, Alberto Núnez Feijóo, the former Minister of Development, José Blanco López, and the vice-president of the Congress of Deputies and former Minister of Development, Ana Pastor Julián, the director of the Rio Minho EGTC, praised “the work of great development and facing the future” that Galicia has carried out, with “a strong commitment to the major means of communication”.
“That’s why roads and railroads were coming from this great region. To be celebrating the journey between Ourense and Madrid, with comfort and safety, in just over two hours to celebrate the present and guarantee the common future”, said Rui Teixeira.
The socialist mayor, who did not like “A path to be completed: the pending steps”, Rui Teixeira highlighted the last two years of leadership, persistent and enthusiastic work in the Ministry of Infrastructure.
“The modernization of the railroad and the need to invest in high-speed lines was replaced in terms of political agility. Specifically, there is a high-speed investment plan between the North of Portugal and the speed between the high-speed investment plan between Galicia, planned in the National Program 2030, the construction of the first of the Porto and Vigo speed line (…) going from a current 02:20 trip to about an hour”, underlined Rui Teixeira.
Based in Valença, in the district of Viana do Castelo, the Rio Minho EGTC was created in 2018 and covers 26 municipalities: the 10 municipalities of the Viana do Castelo district that make up the Intermunicipal Community (CIM) of Alto Minho and 16 Galician municipalities of of Pontevedra, with connection to the river Minho.