The PNV will demand in Europe that the connection by TAV between Bilbao and Santander be added to the Atlantic Corridor
The MEP Izaskun Bilbao defends in an amendment its inclusion in 2040 after the refusal of the Council of Ministers. The project has an initial budget of 2,500 million
The PNV MEP Izaskun Bilbao has announced the presentation of an amendment to include the new high-speed rail corridor between Bilbao and Santander as part of the Athletic Corridor of which the Basque Y is a part. The initiative of the nationalist representative is announced after the Council of Ministers of the European Union will rule out incorporating this new layout within the review of the European rail network that will be the subject of debate in Brussels. The project promoted by the Cantabrian president Miguel Ángel Revilla has an initial budget of 2,500 million euros. The Minister of Transport Raquel Sánchezvisiting Euskadi tomorrow, he has also defended in Europe the importance of this connection between Cantabria and Bilbao.
Izaskun Bilbao intends with its initiative to correct the initial position of the Council of Ministers of the European Union while waiting for the Government of Sánchez to specify how it intends to approach a project that it formally presented on March 31 in the Cantabrian capital. “Whatever it costs, that must be done,” President Revilla warned Sanchez at the presentation of a project with a budget of 2,500 million euros to 100 kilometers of new railway platform75% in tunnels and viaducts.
Cantabria wants the future TAV between Bilbao and Santander to have intermediate stops in Castro Urdiales and Laredo, which will decongest the highly congested motorway for cars and commercial vehicles on weekends and holiday periods. Bilbao justifies its amendment on this connection because it allows “a 123% transfer of passengers from road to train, and 150% in the case of commercial vehicles”.
The Basque MEP has also defended today in the Transport Committee of the European Parliament that European aid is conditional on meeting the deadlines set for completing its main network. A request that is marked in the continuous delays for the completion of the Athletic Corridor both in the Basque Country and in the south of France. The Spanish Government maintains its objective of completing the works of the Y in 2027, although with provisional stations in Bilbao and Vitoria while the two planned burials are carried out.
The PNV parliamentarian has also defended the importance of “providing corridor coordinators with more power and betting on formulas such as the management assignment that unblocked the works of the Basque Y to avoid further delays.” The nationalist spokesman in Congress Aitor Esteban announced in January 2022 a political agreement with the Government of Pedro Sánchez to agree on two new management tasks that allow the Basque Executive to carry out the civil works of the underground entrances of Vitoria and Bilbao, without that almost a year later, these announced parcels have been signed.
A delay on which Minister Raquel Sánchez, who visits Irun to find out the “details” of the new urban redevelopment in the Gipuzkoan municipality, achieved with the Via Irun project that she has promoted, will have to pronounce on tomorrow. Mayor Jose Antonio Santano. With an investment of more than 70 million euros, Irun will have a new international station integrated into its urban fabric that will allow it to recover a large space of more than 65,000 square meters. Sánchez also held a political meeting with pre-election overtones in Vitoria with the PSE candidates for the Álava Provincial Council and the City Council, Cristina Gonzlez and Maider Etxebarria respectively.
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