The delegate of the Government of Spain in Andalusia, Pedro Fernández, has highlighted the more than nine million euros that the State has invested in the Granada municipality of Loja, where the 1.66 million are framed for the improvement of the urban environment in the neighborhoods La Esperanza and La Estacion, works that, according to him, “face their final phase to conclude in March, which will allow the union of two neighborhoods of Loja through a pedestrian walkway to overcome the new Antequera-Granada High Speed Line”.
Specifically, the works, in addition to the new pedestrian walkway, include the construction of canopies on the platforms of the new Loja station, the adaptation and improvement of Fuente Don Pedro Street, the widening of a section of San Antonio María Claret Street and the lighting of an elevated passage located in the old San Francisco apeadero. “This is a joint project that improves the permeability of the passage of the High Speed Line in the municipality, adapting the entire environment and improving mobility and connectivity within Loja”, added the delegate, who was accompanied by the subdelegate of the Government in Granada, Inmaculada López Calsalvo, and by the mayor of Loja, Francisco Joaquín Camacho.
The investments derived from the new railway infrastructure are added, as he explained, “to other economic injections that the Government has allocated to the municipality” and has referred to the grant of 3.8 million euros of the Recovery Plan for river regeneration projects, to the 1.4 million of the Local PIREP for the rehabilitation of the municipal building of the Narváez Palace and to the actions for urban regeneration and improvement of the accessibility and sustainability of the real street of Loja as a Low Emissions Zone, which is around one million euros.
These amounts are in addition to the approximately 172,000 euros received by the municipality from the Ministry of Economic Affairs for the implementation of Broadband, the more than 141,000 euros received by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digitalization in aid to local entities for their digital transformation and modernization, as well as the 1.1 million for the income guarantee project and the 70,000 from the stable employment generating initiative.
“Thanks to the Recovery funds and the continuous calls for aid that the Government of Spain is proposing, we are managing to transform our municipalities, making them more sustainable, more egalitarian and more socially cohesive, which will result in a more strengthened country structure,” he concluded.