The Minister of Transport and Urban Mobility, Óscar Puente, admitted yesterday to Compromís the “enormous complexity” that, in his opinion, the route of the Coast Train, which would link Gandía, Oliva and Denia, entails, from the environmental and proposed the TRAM train as an alternative.
During the Government control session in the Senate, Compromís senator Enric Morera maintained that the Tren de la Costa is one of the infrastructures with a broader “social and political” consensus, denouncing the 50 years of disappearance of the railway line that united these municipalities.
At this point, the Compromís senator reproached Puente for going to Valencia and meeting “with Ayuso’s friends”, considering “concluded” the relationship of the central government with the Valencian party, which has been in coalition in the elections with Sumar, coalition partner of the PSOE.
Given this, Minister Puente defended that he is meeting “with Ayuso’s friends” because they are the ones who govern the Valencian institutions, at the same time that he defended the “enormous complexity” of the Tren de la Costa route.
“It is a 50-year-old problem. And I propose to you the possibility that we opt for an alternative, which would be the TRAM train, which would probably allow us to overcome many of the environmental difficulties that this project has, and I invite you to sit down and for us to talk about it,” said Puente.
