The Mobility Commissioner of the Maresme Regional Council, which brings together entities, political parties and neighborhood platforms involved in the pacification of the N-II highway in the region, criticizes that the Infrastructure Secretary of the Department of Territory and Sustainability of the Generalitat, Marc Sanglas, ignore their official communications and turn a deaf ear to their requirements to promote a project “that the Catalan government hides from us.”
“It is a project of great importance for the territory and Marc Sanglas refuses to make it known” to the main stakeholders in the region, represented in the Consell de Mobilitat, as they regretted at the last meeting. They remember that in the last visit of the deputy general director of the department to the Regional Council, at the end of last year, he promised to send the documentation to be able to study the proposals. However, in all this time, his official requests have been repeatedly ignored.
El Maresme had been waiting for months for the visit of the Minister of Territories, Juli Fernández, in order to find out the status of the project that must manage the pacification of the road corridor on the north coast of Barcelona. The visit did not take place and neither did the transmission of the requested information. “We cannot even know where they plan to build roundabouts” they exemplify and “they do not answer our requests either”. “It is very serious, they ignore the representatives of the city councils and civil society” exclaimed from the commissioner.
“These are key decisions that cannot be faced without the consensus of the territory” point out from the commission, such as the promotion of public transport, a project that has a grant of 1.5 million euros to promote decarbonization. Along the same lines, they also do not know at what point the works for the future of the infrastructures or the studies for the improvement of Rodalies are. “It is disrespectful to deliberately ignore the representatives of the region” they say, while they regret that the secretary meets “only with some elected mayors.”
The Department of Territory and Sustainability has not responded to this newspaper’s request to find out the status of the pacification project and the reasons why the Secretary of Infrastructure turns a deaf ear to the Maresme requests.