Little by little, normality returns to Valencia after the passage of DANA. The Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, through Renfe and Adif, will partially reopen from tomorrow the C1 and C2 lines of Valencia Cercanías and will activate a road transport service with 112 free buses to guarantee the operation of lines C1, C2 and C3 concerned by DANA.
From tomorrow, Wednesday November 13, almost all services will be operated by train and bus. Among them, 52% with rail services and 47% with road services, as announced by the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente.
Bus services will be free. To ensure road service, Renfe has allowed 56,000 seats per day and scheduled 1,022 daily runs for the three lines and buses will stop at all locations in the corridors not served by commuter services.
The budget of the road service is approximately 11.3 million euros. Concretely, the section of the C1 between Gandía and Silla will be done by train and the journey between Silla and Valencia, by bus. With the C2, you can travel by train between Moixent and Carcaixent and by bus to Valencia.
For his part, the C3 Valence-Utiel line service It will be carried out entirely by road due to the complex state of the infrastructure. Thus, between Silla and Valencia (C1), a direct bus service is established with a basic frequency of 10 minutes on weekdays, which will be reinforced depending on existing demand.
The starting point will be in Valencia Joaquín Sorolla while the return point will be in Valencia Estación del Nord.
On line C2, the service will be enriched with 5 bus lines: 4 direct bus lines between Valencia and Carcaixent, Alzira, Algemesí and Benifaió with frequencies between 15 and 30 minutes during the week; and a bus line with intermediate stops to Silla.
Line C3 offers the usual number of road trips, from Utiel Requena to Valencia and stops in between. In this case, departures will start from Plaza de España and arrivals at Valencia Estación del Nord. There will be no stop in Cheste due to the complicated situation.
The first buses will leave Silla station towards Valencia and from Carcaixent station at 5:00 a.m. From Valence station direction Utiel at 6:30 a.m. The last bus service will depart at 10:30 p.m. on C1 and C2 and at 10:05 p.m. on C3.
Line repair
The C1 and C2 Cercanías lines are partially reopened after less than two weeks of intense work by Adif to clean the tracks and stations of vehicles, mud and materials and repair the infrastructure.
Specifically, The manager removed more than 1,000 vehicles from the lines, revised and raised the roadrepaired the platform, replaced the tracks and ballast and carried out safety tests to put them into service in optimal conditions.
SO, As of tomorrow, 222.3 kilometers of the Cercanías lines will have been recovered after the damage caused by the devastating rains, notably on 125.4 km of the C6 and C5, the service of which was activated on Saturday November 2.
Works that were also carried out on the high-speed line between Madrid and Valencia, where the platform had to be rebuilt and the tracks replaced in the Chiva tunnel area and the safety installations of the Torrent tunnel were repaired , which was flooded.
In this sense, the works have already been completed and, from this Thursday, all the high-speed trains on the line will run, representing a total of 199 weekly circulations. in both directions with an offer of 80,000 weekly Renfe seats. Tickets are now on sale.
Adif continues to work on the repair and reconstruction of the two most damaged sections of line C1 and C2 and line C3, which presents a very complicated situation with a viaduct, that of Cheste, destroyed in one of the abutments . It should be remembered that after the rains, around 80 kilometers were completely destroyed and beyond recovery.
Roads
For its part, the ministry, through the General Directorate of Roads, is moving forward in the recovery of road mobility in the province and in the repair of state roads damaged by DANA.
In this sense, this Thursday, the temporary diversion of the A-7 will be opened, in Quart de Poblet, which will allow traffic to be restored on the southern ring road of the A-7 in Valencia and to recover the connection with the ‘A-7. 3, which will restore functionality to the Valence bypass.
This is a very important action since it will restore a backbone of the Mediterranean corridor through which more than 100,000 vehicles travel daily. Currently, and after just over ten days of work day and night, we already have 139 kilometers of network recovered and in service, including the A-3, the V-30, the V-31, a section of the N-330 which connects Utiel to Talayuelas, and the N3, to Siete Aguas and Buñol.
It should be remembered that after heavy rains, 160 kilometers of the road network and its ancillary roads were seriously affected.
