The Minister of Environment, Water, Infrastructure and Territory, Salomé Pradas, has demanded that the Government of Spain bury the train tracks in Alfafar, Sedaví and Benetússer (Valencia) and has rejected the alternative proposed by Adif to the mayors, which goes through the construction of an underpass.
Pradas, in a statement, considered that the Adif project is “a patch” that “will not solve the problems of insecurity and noise that thousands of residents of these towns suffer every day.” For this reason, he has urged the Executive to “listen to the voice of the affected residents as the Consell does” and to evaluate “the alternatives proposed by the Generalitat” in its study of solutions.
The councilor has regretted the “lack of definitive solutions” and has reproached the attitude of Adif, “which did not even receive” the platform of those affected by Alfafar, Benetússer and Sedaví. In this sense, she has indicated that a few weeks ago she held a meeting with the platform of those affected by this level crossing, which has cost “almost 80 deaths in the last four decades.”
“At that meeting, we all agreed that the solution proposed by the central government is insufficient and will not solve the problem,” stressed Pradas, who defended that the Consell “not only drafted and sent the study of solutions to the Ministry of Transport, but rather offered to write the final project”, an offer “to which we have not received a response either”, he lamented.
Likewise, he has guaranteed that the Consell “will continue to reach out to the neighbors” and will demand the execution of the burying of roads proposed in the Generalitat study. “We are talking about a viable solution for this black spot, through which 163 trains circulate every day and 1,400 vehicles cross,” he warned.
