José Ballesta and Pedro Antonio Sanchez held a bilateral meeting to promote strategic projects of the municipality as the AVE, San Esteban recovery and public transport in villages.
Ballesta: "Both from the regional government and the City Council have a firm commitment to meeting each of the periods, forecasting, and economic commitments phases so that there is not a single obstacle to delay the arrival of the high speed".
The regional government will work with the Consistory in the Plan of Action of the Huerta de Murcia and the project 'Murcia River', through a framework agreement
The Mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, and the president of the Community, Pedro Antonio Sánchez, held this morning a bilateral meeting at San Esteban to boost the strategic projects of the municipality, as the works of the burial of the AVE, public transport, the cultural, San Esteban, the Plan of Action of the Huerta de Murcia and 'Murcia River', among others.
The mayor appeared before the media by the Minister of Culture and Potavocía, Noelia Arroyo, after the working meeting that lasted for over an hour and a half in San Esteban and with an agenda consisting of over one hundred pages, and in which also they participated councilors and directors of the respective teams of government.
In terms of infrastructure the current situation of the works of underground high speed entry to Murcia treated.
The City Council reported on the status of the works of sanitation, water pipes and collectors are running Emuasa.
"Yesterday was the deadline for the submission of tenders for this project it comprises three sections and there have been thirty companies each way.
The work, to be awarded in August with a tender budget of 9 million euros, starting in September and the first point that is going to act is one that affects the provisional entry of high speed in Murcia " said Ballesta, adding that "the execution time between 4 to 6 months so that will not interfere in the times of arrival of the AVE to the city."
The works are to adapt to simultaneous work on the Path of the Garres and James the Greater, scheduling his execution also with the works that have to run the Board of Landowners, to cause the least impact to neighbors and avoid delays in arrival of the AVE.
It is also working collaboratively on traffic conditions.
ADIF will finance the execution of works of semafórica automation, essential to the reorganization of traffic.
José Ballesta said that "we are accelerating, resolving and coordinating all the jobs that are in our hand so that, both from the Community and the City Council, there is not a single obstacle or excuse involving a delay in the arrival of the AVE to Murcia .
He also indicated that "we are in talks with Adif, the entity responsible for the work of the infrastructure."
"Both from the regional government and the City Council have a firm commitment to meeting each of the periods, forecasting, and economic commitments phases involved the arrival of high speed to the city of Murcia," he said Ballesta.
"We believe that it is a must to ensure the future of this city element, as it has already done in more than 30 capitals of Spain, giving access to the high speed at more than 75% of the Spanish population.
Murcia is the seventh capital of our country and claimed, for the common good and the general interest of all, the arrival of the AVE, regardless of colors and ideologies, because it is an essential infrastructure for the future of Murcia and Murcia of this first generation of the century ", he said.
Moreover, the mayor added that "has been fixed and we have found at this meeting, the problem that existed in the station Carmen, who did not have the minimum conditions for passengers.
Adif has performed with the installation of a provisional stay with air conditioning and the necessary amenities.
San Esteban: news next week
Another project of transformation of the city of Murcia is the recovery of the environment San Esteban.
In this regard, the minister said that will be next week when the president and the mayor sign that Incio to joint actions for the valorization of the site of the suburb of "Arrixaca New" agreement and recovery Square San Esteban, returning neighbors a space that can become a reference point first cultural and tourist level.
The improvement of public transport in September
During the bilateral meeting, the issue of public transport was also addressed.
The mayor confirmed that it will be this September when improvements in the frequency and services lines of the South Coast, specifically in the 78 and 30 to travel the Dryland Beniaján-La Arrixaca and are launched Murcia- zeneta.
"It is social demand and its implementation is a commitment of the current Municipal Corporation and the Regional Government," he added.
More social workers proposed in Murcia and districts
In the social sphere, the Ministry of Family and Equal Opportunities has agreed to include items in the budget for next year to improve the provision of the staff of social workers who provide their work in the centers managed by the city of Murcia.
A framework convention and Murcia Huerta River
During the meeting, the mayor and his team officially presented the project of the Plan of Action of the Huerta de Murcia and the project 'Murcia River', acquiring the president's commitment to signing a framework agreement by which the Community will collaborate in these strategic city projects, through the various ministries involved.
"Here we have not just come to be or remain.
We have come to transform this city with the realization of strategic projects based on our identity and idiosyncrasy, looking to the future and for that, we also involve the region. "
Strong and coordinated cultural offer
Likewise, City Hall and the CARM advanced programming of a joint cultural, so that there is perfect coordination between cultural infraestrcuturtas and offer both administrations, achieving a "compact, solid and attractive offer, to become a cultural reference point of all our close geographical environment, "said the mayor.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia