The delegate of the Government in Cantabria, Ainoa Quiñones, has praised the grounding of the railway tracks as it passes through the urban center of Torrelavega as the "most important project for the transforming impulse" of the city and is also "a work that represents that advance and that transformation that the Government of Spain wants for Torrelavega, Cantabria and the whole country".
Quiñones has pointed this out this Friday during his speech in the act of beginning the works of replacement of the sanitation services and the services affected by the provisional diversion of roads that will be carried out by ADIF to be able to start the grounding, an act in which he has participated together with the president of Cantabria, María José Sáenz de Buruaga, and the mayor of Torrelavega, Javier López Estrada, and which has been attended, among others, the commissioner for the Proximity Plan of Cantabria, Antonio Berrios.
The representative of the State in the Autonomous Community stressed that this initial action, which will be carried out by the City of Torrelavega and which has been awarded to Senor for 411,000 euros, is the "first definitive step" to "make a key project for the city a reality" such as the subsidy.
The Government of Spain, presided over by Pedro Sánchez, has always had among its priorities, as reflected in the General State Budgets, despite the context of difficulties that have occurred in recent years with “the outbreak of the pandemic, the crisis caused by the war in Ukraine or the rise in prices due to the inflationary crisis experienced by the European Union as a whole”.
“Proof of this is also the unity of action and the will of all the public administrations, of the Government of Spain, of the Government of Cantabria and of the City Council, so that the project of grounding will not remain only in a shared project but in sharing those determined steps so that progress is made in the different phases of execution that make in a horizon of five years it no longer a promise to be finally a reality,” Quiñones said.
Thus, the delegate of the Government has said that the impulse of the work of the basement along with the progress of other great projects such as the link of Sierranpando-Barreda, the third lane from Polanco to Santander, the Gorge of the Hermida or the works for the arrival of the High Speed to Cantabria, are “a demonstration that the commitments with Cantabria of the Government of Spain advance as they had not done in decades, going from being a promise, a commitment, an announcement or an infographic to a reality”.
For this reason, he considered that “it will be possible to speak of delays, of different deadlines than those initially foreseen at the worst moment of our democracy, with a pandemic or a war that altered all priorities, but not, as with previous governments, of unfulfilled commitments, of announcements never made reality, of infographics that remained in the dream of the righteous”. “Today in Cantabria all these projects, after decades talking about them, are works in execution like never before,” he said.
And, therefore, Quiñones has pointed out that it is “fair to say that the Government of Spain is complying with Cantabria and is complying with Torrelavega” and also “not only listens to the historical claims of this land, but is complicit in them and that they advance as they have never done before”.