The Minister of Transport and sustainable mobility, Oscar Puente, confirmed this Thursday thatThe AVE line between Madrid and Valencia will continue to be cut “between two and three weeks” for the serious damage caused by DANA. The service high speed will only be restored when mid-November.
“There are areas where the routes have to be changed and access to certain points is completely difficult. In some tunnels it was necessary to access them on foot,” he explained during a press conference. report on the infrastructure situation.
Puente explained that high speed has two very “large and serious” assignment points, one in the Chiva tunnel, with more than a kilometer of “disappeared” tracks.
Too bad for the high speed between Madrid and Valencia.
Here, 1.2 kilometers of high-speed infrastructure will need to be replaced, which will take between two or three weeks, “provided there are no more complications,” Puente said, leaving open the possibility that the cutting of the AVE Madrid-Valencia continues. up to a month.
“If there is power today, we will be able to clean and then do a diagnosis. It will not be possible to complete the work in the next three weeks, which is the approximate minimum duration of the replacement work, if we let’s not find anything else,” he added.
Does not exist alternative option of rail transport between Madrid and Valencia since “the passage through Albacete is excluded because there are very affected areas”, as confirmed by the minister.
Puente also announced that road restoration would take weeks or months.
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