The delegate of the Government in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé, has met with the president of the Neighborhood Federation of València, Mª José Broseta and the representatives of the neighborhood associations of the neighborhoods of Abastos, La Petxina, La Roqueta, Patraix, San Marcelino, Malilla, Tres Forques, Cuidem la Raïosa and Iturbi, to whom she has transmitted the commitment of the Government of Spain with the so-called Green Corridor in front of those who support “a mobility of the 21st century full”.
According to Bernabé, the government is in favor of supporting “an environmentally sustainable city” and ending the railway scar that historically separates the neighborhoods of the south from the city through a “fair formula”. The Green Corridor “is the solution” supported by neighbors and neighbors that guarantees safety with evacuation routes, such as those in the current Turia Garden, and has stressed that the Government of Spain, which has 50% representativeness in the Central Park Society, “will only support a fair proposal for southern neighborhoods to which trains cannot be exchanged for cars.”
The government delegate has emphasized the central administration’s commitment to rail transformation, the only one in Spain, with an investment of 3 billion euros. Bernabé recalled that the Secretary of State for Transport and Sustainable Mobility, José Antonio Santano, already advanced on May 6 that, when the works of the Access Channel are finished, the investment will have already reached 941 million euros. To this must be added two investments that are planned: the new Central Station, with an investment that exceeds 1,000 million euros and the expansion of the through-axis to Albuixech. These two actions “are going to mean an investment in Valencia very close to the 2.5 billion euros to which, if we add the almost 1 billion euros of the Access Channel, we are talking about an investment of 3.5 billion euros, of which the State assumes 3 billion euros”, he said.
Adaptation of the project
Bernabé recalled that the last Board of Directors of València Parque Central “agreed to promote an update of the García Lorca boulevard project in a sustainable way, with a climate and gender perspective and with neighborhood consultations”. It is, as he said, “a guarantee against impositions without dialogue”.
The model defended by the Spanish Government “is not only urbanism. It’s health.” International studies, said the delegate, “confirm that areas with more urban vegetation reduce respiratory and cardiovascular diseases by up to 20%.” And in this sense, he has assured that “the city cannot miss this historic opportunity to sew València alive and not with noise, and generate another great green space, as was done in the 1980s with the old Turia riverbed”.