In the last week, the Government made bids on twelve projects involving different sections of the planned high speed train route from the Valencian Community -Madrid, which has a total planned budget of 614 million Euros. The section from Valencia to Murcia via Alicante has a budget of 325 million Euros.
Plans for the route of the AVE between Elche and Beniel, passing through Orihuela, Callosa de Segura, Cox, San Isidro and Granja , will require the demolition of 180 houses built on rustic land of the huerta. According to the farming union la Unió-Coag the 20 kilometre section of the new railway will also devastate a million square metres of the traditional kitchen garden. This is why they are having meetings with the those who will be affected before it is too late.
Naturally people are scared and misinformed by what they have heard of reports from the Ministry of Public Works and the Economy. Although they are aware that plans have been drawn, up nobody has officially notified the people in the houses that will be affected. There is already a group “La Sierra no se Toca” which is in opposition to plans to cross the Sierra de Callosa. No doubt there will be other protest groups set up before the railway is completed.
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