The Ministry of Transport asks the Murcia City Council to return part of the European aid received for not having completed the planned sustainable mobility project and for which the capital of the Region received subsidies of more than 20 million euros in 2022 for five Projects. It should return about 10 million.
The Ministry headed by Óscar Puente has sent a communication to the City Council in which it denies the change requested by Murcia to leave several segregated bus and bike lanes unexecuted for which this aid was obtained, both from Feder and Next Generation Funds. According to the Ministry, 8 kilometers of bike lanes out of the 34 planned have been stopped, and 2 kilometers of bus lanes have been requested to be removed.
In total, Murcia's sustainable mobility plan had the following aid: the project for the implementation of BTR lines was budgeted at 23,049,652.88 euros (of which 16,979,406.69 euros were from Feder funds); The project to modernize the traffic management infrastructure and modernize the measurement and control systems will have an amount of 7,262,430.93 euros (5,401,808.13 euros from Next Generation Funds), and the project to expand the network of reserved platforms for bike lanes and bus lanes had a budget of 13,135,072 euros (of which 9,770,112 euros were financed with Next Generation funds).
The Ministry already warned the city councils in September that they announced the reversal of the mobility plans that would take measures and this is one of them. The return of the funds would affect other Spanish municipalities that eliminate or do not finish executing the subsidized works.
The City Council has 5 days to send the Ministry the allegations it deems appropriate. If they are not accepted, Transport reminds that more pending works must be completed in December of this year.
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