The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, has asked the Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Óscar Puente, to meet again to “redirect the situation” on the A-5 due to the underground works, after not arriving this Tuesday a joint agreement on the mobility plan, and has insisted that the problem can be “solved”.
“From the same loyalty with which we have all raised in the meetings, I ask the minister that if it is necessary that we sit down again and let’s solve this problemwe are going to talk about it again and we are going to see what the channels are to redirect this situation, because I believe that the people of Madrid in the Community of Madrid have to have a solution,” the councilor told journalists from the social services center of Vista Alegre.
Thus, consider that The solution must have “a technical root without prejudice to the political decision” which requires that the Ministry “put on the table its mobility measures, which have to go along the Cercanías route and on the issue of free R-5.”
“The City Council and the Community are very clear about what we want to do, what our mobility measures are and what we want is to complement them and have them work together with those of the Ministry,” he defended, while at the same time emphasizing that the The one that does not have a mobility plan for the A-5 is the Government of the nation.
“They knew perfectly well that this began in December and in the meeting we had with the minister they assumed that this began in mid-December and He did not ask us in any way to delay it“, highlighted Martínez-Almeida, who has also criticized that the socialist spokesperson, Reyes Maroto, tries to get “some kind of advantage” with this situation.
Along the same lines, he has assessed that He doesn’t want “a confrontation” with the Ministry, but to ensure that they are capable of “cooperating and working together”, while Maroto is committed to “the fight and the brawl”. “I would tell Reyes Maroto to go talk to the residents of Paseo de Extremadura and ask them if they think it’s okay or not that this infrastructure is implemented with the inconveniences and inconveniences it entails,” he noted.
The burial will not be delayed
In the meeting held this Tuesday afternoon, neither the City Council nor the Government reached an agreement on the appropriate mobility plan to carry out the burying of the Extremadura highway. The delegate of Urban Planning, Environment and Mobility, Borja Carabante, revealed the “institutional disloyalty” of the Ministry of Transport due to the leaks prior to holding the meeting.
Transport asked the José Luis Martínez-Almeida City Council to delay the works on the Extremadura highway until at least March to guarantee an alternative mobility plan, at the same time that it transferred its commitment to make the R-5 free temporarily, always and when the city council collaborates in the financing of that measure.
However, after the meeting held at the CRTM headquarters between the three administrations to address mobility alternatives, Borja Carabante pointed out that the Ministry is not able to explain what works they have to carry out so that the City Council has to delay the works of the A-5 and that the Government cannot reinforce Cercanías.
“The data they have provided us says that they have capacity for 47,700 additional places without carrying out the work. There is enough capacity to be able to start work now. with the traffic detours,” Carabante said at the end of the meeting.
Carabante described the meeting as “disappointing” and stressed that the Ministry has “excuses of being a bad payer” and insists on “hitting the municipalities with the R-5.” “We want Madrid to be treated the same as the rest, the same as the municipalities of the province of Alicante, where the AP-7 is free and paid for in full by the Ministry,” the delegate insisted, while recalling that the The rest of the mayors, except for Alcorcón, which is from the Socialist Party, request free radio.
Faced with this scenario, Carabante has highlighted that the work of burying the A-5 to make way for the Paseo Verde “it will not be delayed” because “there is no reason for it”. “There is consensus among all operators and administrations that it is necessary to reinforce and there is capacity to reinforce all operators,” he concluded.
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