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| The never ending story about the arrival, or passage of the High Speed ??Train, through Lorca, seems more than anything a joke | After several decades always talking about the same thing, I would dare to say that no one can yet give an exact date for it to be a reality.
If he did, I am sure he would be wrong again.
How many dates have been considered so far? During the almost 30 years that I have moved within the world of information, I have attended many, many press conferences that have only served to make people even more dizzy.
In the governments with powers for the AVE to move, there have been people of different political signs (until now PP-PSOE, PSOE-PP).
It does not matter.
They have all shown their intentions, but they have always been wrong.
At the rate they are taking, I believe that the eyes of the generation that has just retired from their working lives will never see the AVE pass through these lands.
The rest, I don't know. And to all this, it would be necessary to ask, how many people plan to use the AVE in the hypothetical case that one day (before the end of the 21st century), the convoluted project becomes a reality. How many Lorca and Lorca will use it when that big day comes, if it ever does? It is true that the arrival or passage of the AVE through these lands will be a sign of progress in Murcia's communications with Andalusia so deteriorated and lack of investment since in 1988, the government of the day decided to abolish the railway line that communicated us with Granada.
The famous Mediterranean Corridor still has a lot to say in all this. Some still remember the "Granadino", as he was popularly known.
A train that had a stop at the Lorca stations from the land of the Alhambra that, among other things, had a wagon for the Post Office service and was the means of transport that our grandparents, parents and brothers used for, with the corresponding transshipments that had to be made, emigrating to Catalonia, France or Germany, either for the grape harvest or in search of a better and more prosperous world. With regard to that AVE that does not fly, it must also be said that very little has been determined about the burying of the railway that is expected to be carried out as trains pass through Lorca city.
Much ink has run but there is nothing specific either.
Even the idea still flies that its passage next to the A-7 highway would be the most successful solution. What is already a reality, however, is that more than a hundred families in the La Hoya district had their lands expropriated more than a decade ago when they could still be producing and are still traversed by a compacted platform that will be useless if the works do not continue in other sections, although it must be recognized that this process is already underway. Those who, due to their bravery and courage, have put things in their place have been the residents of Tercia, who thanks to the mobilizations they have carried out, through the "Villaespesa Soterrada" platform, have managed to stop the monstrous project that The Railway Infrastructure Administrator (ADIF) had planned to carry out in the area with the construction of elevated bridges over the tracks that would have significantly impaired its social and economic future.
I put as an example of this, the passage through the Camino de Villaespesa. I repeat that much has been said and written about the arrival of the High Speed ??Railway in Lorca, but if all those words and comments had been used to ask for and fight for the improvement of the commuter trains between Murcia-Lorca-Águilas and vice versa, how much more would have been achieved? They are still trains from past centuries, scraps from other lines that have put us with shoehorn and that we have swallowed, full of deficiencies that already entered the 21st century are not adapted to current times or to current circumstances. At this point, it should also be asked, how many people use the commuter trains daily and how many others would do so on the AVE, if they ever passed through this region? The balance would tip, considerably, towards those who use the train every day of those who do it for long trips.
For this reason, I believe, it would be necessary to invest in railway infrastructures of this type of services, rather than by a hypothetical AVE that seems increasingly far away, whatever the politicians say. FRANCISCO GÓMEZ PÉREZ.
Source: Francisco Gómez / Foto: archivo
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