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For Councilman Jose Antonio Sotomayor "the delay in the burial is a failure" because the amount allocated released by the mayor of Murcia, Miguel Ángel Cámara, shows that is not going to make the short term given the low level of contribution, 2.5% of the total 15.6 million euros that would put the City

Councilman Union Progress and Democracy in the Consistory of the capital, José Antonio Sotomayor, said the announcement by the City Council to allocate 400,000 euros in budget 2013 for the arrival of the AVE "are clearly insufficient."

For Sotomayor "the delay in the burial is a failure" because the amount allocated released by the mayor of Murcia, Miguel Ángel Cámara, shows that is not going to make short-term given the small size of the contribution, 2.5% of the total 15.6 million euros that would put the City.

The agreement signed in 2006 between Development, Autonomous Community and Murcia own town specifying that he should contribute 8% of the 195 million budgeted to carry out the actions for the arrival of the High Speed.

"Unfortunately," says the mayor, "those 400 000 are clearly insufficient" and that at a rate of 400,000 per year, it would take about 40 years to complete the nearly 16 million euros.

Jose Antonio Sotomayor reiterated that "no waiver Murcia UPyD underground" and calls for efforts to administrations involved, while recalling the recent agreement between all political groups that make up the Corporation where expressly set out "the need inalienable bury the train tracks "and this is the main priority of the Ministry of Development.

In this regard, the proposal of an alternative station on the outskirts of the city right now is "a temporary lesser evil" that is preferable from the city in two with a surface AVE.

Also, for UPyD Murcia is just as important the arrival of the high speed and also have a good conventional rail network as currently "the region presents a panorama almost third world".

Thus, Sotomayor directly responsible both the PP and the PSOE own railway network of the nineteenth century, with the delay in Camarillas variant "the best example of political inertia of both."

"Successive governments of PP and PSOE have had the opportunity to give the region a network split conventional and electrified, but have preferred to throw accusations rather than make the necessary investments, regardless of citizens," he concludes.

Source: UPyD Murcia