This Monday, Felipe VI and Pedro Sánchez inaugurate the high-speed line that may hyperlink Madrid and Murcia in three hours South of town
It was on December 15, 2003 when the previous Secretary of State Benigno Blanco positioned the primary sleepers of the AVE that may hyperlink Madrid and the capital of the Region. The undertaking had begun to take form 5 years earlier, in 1998.
Since then, numerous political and social controversies have slowed down a undertaking that might be formally inaugurated this Monday and can join each locations in simply three hours.
Policy and monitor modifications
If that first sleeper was caught with Juan Carlos I as Head of State and José María Aznar in Moncloa, this Monday it is going to be King Felipe VI and Pedro Sánchez, who will make the debut journey on the Madrid-Murcia AVE line, which has stops in Albacete and Cuenca.
For Murcia, the premiere has a bittersweet taste, because the new line in the direction of the Mediterranean offers precedence to the route in the direction of Alicante and relegates basic Murcian enclaves, comparable to Cartagena, Lorca and Cieza.
20 years in the past, with Francisco Álvarez Cascos on the head of the Ministry of Public Works, the excessive velocity to Murcia was one of many flagship tasks of the Popular Party government.
Since the preliminary undertaking, the structure has undergone numerous modifications, which haven’t glad everybody, particularly contemplating that the ‘pure’ manner for High Speed to succeed in Murcia needs to be passing via Alicante, as an alternative of Cieza and Albacete .
The AVE from Madrid reached Valencia in 2010 and Alicante three years later. Since then, Murcia has needed to wait.
Burial of the tracks
To entry the Murcian capital, Adif constructed a floor highway with the promise of later constructing an underground route, however the movement of censure that ousted Mariano Rajoy brought on a change within the Ministry’s plans and work on the tunnel and building started. of the brand new station.
It was the Plataforma Pro Soterramiento de las vías, which with its fixed citizen mobilization on Tuesdays, managed to get the AVE to the Carmen station via a tunnel, which saves the extent crossing of Santiago el Mayor, a measure that has contributed to restructure the south of town.
Underground works for the tracks EDU BOTELLA
Maiden voyage
The inaugural voyage this Monday will start at 1:15 p.m. with the reception of Authorities on the Chamartín-Clara Campoamor Station, the arrival of the President of the Government and His Majesty the King.
At 1:40 p.m. the departure from the Madrid Chamartín-Clara Campoamor station will happen on the inaugural practice, which is scheduled to reach at 3:54 p.m. on the Elx-AV station. At 4:10 p.m. the Ave will depart for Murcia and, at 4:39 p.m., the AVE will arrive on the Murcia-Del Carmen station.
The institutional act is scheduled at 4:50 p.m., with the departure of the practice again to Chamartín-Clara Campoamor at 6:00 p.m. with out stopping in Elche. At 8:37 p.m. the schedule will conclude with the arrival of the practice to Madrid Chamartín-Clara Campoamor.
Service from Tuesday
The Murcia-Madrid AVE will start industrial service on Tuesday, December 20. Renfe has programmed 8 each day companies, 4 in every course, between the 2 cities, with a each day provide of two,824 seats. Four of the companies have their origin and vacation spot Madrid Chamartín Clara Campoamor, with intermediate stops in Orihuela and Elche and a journey time of two hours and 45 minutes.
The different 4 AVE companies originate and finish on the Puerta de Atocha station in Madrid with intermediate stops in Orihuela, Elche, Alicante, Villena, Albacete and Cuenca. Travel time for this tour might be from 3 hours and 25 minutes.
Renfe has bought 10,600 tickets within the first 20 hours for the brand new Madrid-Murcia AVE. The first tickets obtained by prospects are for journey between December 20, the primary day of service, and January 30, in line with firm sources in a press release.