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Murcia has become one of the European cities promoters of a lobby that focuses on the development of cities through rail infrastructure.

The Mayor, Miguel Angel House, has this morning signed the letter of accession to the European platform Net Core Cities, consisting of more than 120 European cities with the support of Ferrmed, whose primary objective is to leverage the extension of trans to transform spaces connected cities, smart and sustainable.

House, who has been involved in the act of creation that took place today in Barcelona, ​​has taken to address the situation of Murcia in connection with the railway and the occasion that heralds the arrival of the high speed train to integrate burying the tracks in urban areas.

In this sense, the Mayor pointed out the opportunity and the challenge posed to a city the advent of high speed rail, both the fact of a conveyance fast and modern, such as the need to know to use it to give a boost to urban transformation projects, improving accessibility and boost economic development.

Freight corridor

Also, the Mayor has emphasized the recent European Union decision to prioritize the Mediterranean Corridor, consisting of two paths: one from the coast (Algeciras, Cartagena, Valencia, Tarragona, Barcelona, ​​French border to the Ukrainian border) and another on the inside.

Its construction will eliminate bottlenecks by 35 cross-border projects, connect 83 ports and 37 airports (10 in Spain) and 1,500 kilometers of high-speed railway lines.

Net platform Core Cities Eu constitute a permanent observatory on the development of transport infrastructure, logistics, power transmission, intercom and relevant data management systems.

At the origin of the birth of this network include the conviction of the possible role of the network proposed by Ferrmed-and adopted by the European Commission to contribute to smart growth in cities, because it is in them where most part of the EU population and which generates significant economic activity.

In this sense, the cities that form the platform agree to defend transportation systems, especially rail and trans-European projects, such as new connections key to progress.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia