A “new” Oscar Puente. This is what it shows. This is the image that the Minister of Transport is proposing after the entire DANA tragedy. Puente, a “guerrilla” like few others in Pedro Sánchez’s executive, buried the hatchet to show a side close and far from this characteristic hardness. For bring out its more political profile.
Since the first day of these floods, of this tragedy which has left the province of Valencia very affected., one of the most affected aspects directly concerns him,. Lots of roads, lots of roads. Many transport services unusable. Rail services, those of Cercanías, destroyed or practically destroyed.
Far from attacking political clashes that he never backed down from and that the tragedy brought about, Puente showed a diplomatic and political side. to repair everything that depended on him. He reports it, day after day, on his social networks. In an account that he keeps himself.
Such was his work that There were and are not few memes which were made about him or in relation to him. For his speed in rebuilding roads, bridges, Cercanías… and he, at COPE, spoke of this “new Óscar Puente”.
“I’m still the same”
“I haven’t changed. I’m still the same. I was mayor of Valladolid and that’s why Sánchez counted on me. I’m a manager, but people are not one-dimensional. I don’t know anyone which has only one facet. We all have different faces, and this one has always been there, Another thing is that it wasn’t as well known or couldn’t be shown enough,” he said.
Because Puente was clear: “The management needs in this crisis are very important, as are the communication needs. I do it myself, I don’t have a CM or advisors as some imply. I do it purely by intuition. “This crisis demanded this profile.”
“I get up and go to bed with Valencia”
“Valencia gets priority attention. I wake up and go to bed with Valencia every day. Right now, the needs there go beyond the ordinary”, Puente expressed in his speech at COPE.
For now, everything is on track: “”Before Christmas, lottery day, the idea is that theat C1 and C2 of Cercanías, and we will have C5 and C6 ready. As for C3, let it extend at least as far as Aldaia. From then until the end, we will have to spend months rebuilding.”
“At the latest, at dawn, we will open the N-330. As for the A-3, to the south it is closed by a viaduct which has collapsed. We have tried to build an alternative route which we are already paving this small piece, about 200 or 300 meters, the speed will be limited to 50 kilometers per hour. There is an interior fence in Valencia which is very damaged, I have already transferred it to Mazón. Recruitment must be accelerated”, » concludes Puente.
