High speed train travel from Spain to Portugal could be a reality by 2030 – CSN News

Monday, 30 December 2024, 20:32.

Spain’s transportation preacher Óscar Puente wished to unclog a brand-new high-speed train course (AVE) prior to completion of the year that will certainly attach Madrid with Lisbon with Extremadura, and he has actually done so with a brand-new line with Toledo and Talavera in spite of the hesitation of the local federal government of Castilla-La Mancha.

The conclusive course has actually seen numerous months of hold-up today the Ministry of Transportation has actually introduced a proposition for the AVE to travel through Toledo, the last impediment.

Puente recognized on Friday 27 December in a meeting on Onda Cero radio that not all the needs of the local authorities have actually been satisfied, however that the course had actually been “obstructed for also lengthy due to these inconsistencies” and they had actually currently alerted that if there was no contract “we would certainly take the choice ourselves”. Which is what they have actually done.

After greater than twenty years of procedures, the ministry has actually gotten to a contract with Toledo town hall with a task for the AVE course over the river “that is well fixed”, although there are still inconsistencies.

The Madrid-Extremadura-Lisbon high-speed train will certainly travel through the district of Toledo, where building has actually not yet started. In Extremadura, on the various other hand, the line is unfinished from Navalmoral to Plasencia and nearly completed from Plasencia to Badajoz. “We can not make Extremadura wait any kind of longer”, alerted the preacher in the radio meeting and computed that the jobs will certainly be finished by 2030 due to the fact that the Extremadura course is virtually completed. There are just 160 kilometres of track entrusted to be carried out in Castilla-La Mancha, which “can be gotten to in 5 years, if we function promptly” the preacher stated.