He UPN Deputy in Congress, Alberto Cataláncriticized the Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Óscar Puentethat “it does not matter that the works – of the TAV – arrive at the gates of Tudela and we do not know where they are taking place and that the new station is now uncertain“.
Catalán explained, during the control session at the Government, that “the Navarrese high-speed corridor envisages the construction of a new double track bypassing Tudela and a new station east of the Reina Sofía Hospital which provides services to TudelaTHE Ribera de Navarre and its area of influence. This is reflected in the written reports. The last one, the one presented by the Ministry in March 2023.”
According to the UPN in a press release, the regionalist recalled that, on September 11, the minister “declared that from now on It is being studied that the Tudela ring road does not have a new station and that it is an ordinary bypass, so that there are trains which stop at the old station and others which do not.” “Why is such a possibility being studied now? Who owns the proposal? From the Ministry? From the government of Navarre?”, he asked.
The regionalist deputy stressed that “The Town Hall of Tudela, in addition to a new station, demands the removal of the old tracks which cross the urban area of the city.It does not make sense to study without building a new station. It was 22 years ago and we are not here for setbacks but for progress and specific dates,” he criticized Puente.
Catalan too criticized the fact that “the Tudela Town Hall is not consultedAs María Chivite said in March 2023, even the Ministry will not receive them. » And she demanded “speed, diligence, transparency and information”. No more delays, no more uncertainties. THE new station east of the Reina Sofía Hospital in Tudela is necessary and essential. »
Finally, the deputy recalled that a few weeks ago Congress approved a UPN initiative so that the Navarre high speed runner is built “before 2030 and the Castejón-Zaragoza section is given priority”. “Will the ministry fulfill this parliamentary mandate?” he asked Puente.
As explained by the UPN, Minister Óscar Puente said that “this month of October they sent the informative study of the Castejón-Zaragoza section to the Ministry of Ecological Transition to issue the environmental impact statement”. And he declared that “the solution formulated by the ministry is to rcarry out a variant outside the urban area of Tudelabut keeping the current station in the center, so that some trains stop and others do not.
For Alberto Catalán, it is “a joke that they change the decision to build a new station east of the Reina Sofía Hospital that This would give better service to Tudela and La Ribera for a renovation of the old, maintaining the current roads through the urban center”.
