The Ministry of Transport estimates that 2.6 billion euros will be needed to restore the road and railway network after the disastrous passage of the DANA through the province of Valencia. It is a provisional estimate on which Óscar Puente’s department and the Generalitat Valenciana have worked this afternoon in the first meeting of the Government-Consell Infrastructure Immediate Response Group in which Puente himself has participated, together with the Minister of the Environment, Infrastructure and Territory, Vicente Martínez Mus, and the Minister of Agriculture, Water, Livestock and Fisheries, Miguel Barrachina.
During the meeting, both entities agreed to develop a global emergency plan to recover infrastructure seriously damaged by the floods caused by Dana. In the coming days, Minister Óscar Puente himself is expected to travel to Valencia to continue with the talks and the recovery work on road and railway infrastructure.
The first meeting served as a contact meeting and described the actions that the different administrations are already carrying out in the road and railway network. Likewise, it has been agreed to jointly carry out an alternative mobility plan until the main entry and exit routes to Valencia and the municipalities affected by the floods can be restored, according to a statement from Transport after the meeting. The Government and Generalitat have also agreed that the Infrastructure Immediate Response Group will meet periodically and frequently in the coming weeks, as well as the constitution of two working subgroups with a technical profile for the development of the different actions.
(There will be an extension).
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