The Ministry of Transport led by Óscar Puente has made a first estimate of the cost that will result from repairing the damage caused by the DANA during its passage in the province of Valencia: 2.6 billion euros to restore the road and rail network , basic infrastructure for mobility.
This is the conclusion that the Government and the Generalitat Valenciana communicated after the meeting of the Government-Consell Infrastructure Immediate Intervention Group in which Puente herself participated, alongside the Minister of Environment, Infrastructure and of the Territory, Vicente Martínez Mus, and the Minister of the Environment. Agriculture, water, livestock and fishing, Miguel Barrachina.
In the coming days, “Minister Óscar Puente will travel to Valencia to continue negotiations and work on the recovery of road and rail infrastructure,” said the Transport and Mobility portfolio.
The session also served to detail “the actions that the different administrations are already carrying out in the road and rail network and it was agreed to establish two sub-working groups to advance the work and improve coordination”.
On the other hand, it was agreed to jointly carry out a a transport plan to offer an alternative to mobility until the main entry and exit routes from Valencia and the municipalities affected by the floods can be re-established.
Progress in recovery
For its part, the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility has already activated all lanes of the V-30, the V-31, the A-3 and the A-7 north of the A -3 and progress in the reconstruction work. the N-330, the N-322 and the A-7.
In the latter, said the department headed by Óscar Puente, “progress is underway in the construction of the temporary diversion of the A-7, with speed limits, to allow travel with the A-3” and “the concreting of the subsequent installation of the 250 gantries which will constitute the temporary southern bypass of the A-7”.
Concerning the Cercanías network, according to the ministry, “the C6 and C5 lines are already operating normally and with increased capacity, while the cleaning and evacuation of vehicles from the tracks and stations of C1, C2 and C3” are accelerating.
According to the state government, “the first two lines are damaged, but they are performing better than expected, allowing them to be put into service within a reasonable time frame.” This situation contrasts with the situation of the C3, which “is very complicated”.
The Generalitat Valenciana has launched actions for the repair or construction of at least nine structures. In particular, “it emerges the need to intervene on two bridges on the CV-36 highway and two others on the CV-33”, indicated the ministry.
In addition, “it is necessary to prepare different roads that have suffered flooding, with particular attention to the CV-50 and CV-400, from where the vehicles have already been removed and transferred to the Valencia South countryside for expertise later”.
In the Metrovalencia network, work has already begun to restore circulation “gradually”, both on the tram lines and in the metro, after the own facilities of the Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana (FGV) in Valencia South were affected by flooding, with significant damage to workshops, offices and the command post.
“The regional railway network is very damaged, in particular the section between Sant Isidre and Castelló with all kinds of damage, both to the tracks and to the catenaries,” says the ministry.
