The delegate of the Government in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé, attended the presentation of the Alicante Project online to connect everything in which she highlighted "the bet" of the Government of Spain for the province of Alicante. “The commitment of the Government of Spain to the province of Alicante is demonstrated with the largest investment in recent decades.” In terms of railway infrastructure alone, the Spanish Government has invested more than 1.35 billion euros in this province. In this sense, he stressed that “the bet is shown by investing: works are loves and not good reasons”.
Bernabé added that the province of Alicante is “the third in execution of the General Budgets of the State and the one that has obtained the most tender for public works in the last month and the seventh in all of Spain that has received the most tender for public works since the beginning of the year”. They are, as added “452M€ tendered in public works by the Government of Spain, compared to 100M€ by the Generalitat. In short, data kills a story.”
In this event promoted by the Chamber of Commerce of Alicante, the Institute of Economic Studies of the province of Alicante and the Valencian Business Confederation, the delegate of the Government has highlighted “the impulse” to the Mediterranean Corridor in recent years, with more than 6.3 billion tenders, 4.8 billion awarded and 2.513 billion executed. Thus he indicated that “six years ago there were only 60% of the previous studies of the Mediterranean Corridor carried out and 40% of the works in progress. Now, 75% of the route of the Corridor is under construction, 85% projected and 100% of the studies carried out.” The province of Alicante – he said – “is capturing a good part of these investments to make the Mediterranean Corridor a reality”, as evidenced by the 505 million euros already paid in the first phase of the Xàtive-La Encina stretch or the 135 million from the Moixent-La Encina Knot.
To this are added the 703 million euros of railway investment underway in the province of Alicante, among which the Torrellano variant stands out; the projects to implement the standard width in the Mediterranean Corridor, in the San Isidro–Alicante section; the security facilities of the La Encina-Alicante section to adapt the future road to the mixed width or the construction works of six new high-speed tracks in the Alicante Station, among others.