July 23, 2024. The delegate of the Government, Mariola Guevara, has confirmed that ADIF will modify the project of the line Totana to eliminate most of the embankment that affects the neighborhood of Los Sifones, build a viaduct and thus attend to the neighborhood claims, which considered that the original project constituted a real architectural barrier to the development of the city and the well-being of its inhabitants.
This decision is the culmination of months of talks between the government delegate and ADIF, which have allowed the Railway Infrastructure Manager to undertake to prepare a modification of the project to eliminate 240 meters of the original 350 meters of the T-5 embankment and thus meet the demands of its neighbors.
The new project will clearly improve the landscape integration of the railway work and the communication between the two margins of the route. In addition, it will help prevent the embankment from becoming a possible architectural barrier that generates a territorial division in the municipality.
Likewise, ADIF will modify the project of the road connection roundabout that will be built in that stretch, adapting it to the proposals made by those affected and the city council.
Guevara valued the significant budgetary effort made by ADIF to reconcile neighborhood demands with the necessary requirement that the works on the Mediterranean corridor should not be delayed and that the works should fit the administrative requirements of the project modifications.
In the next few days ADIF will detail to the City of Totana the changes it will make in the project that attend practically all the neighborhood demands.
New station
It should be remembered that the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility last month tendered for 9.4 million euros (VAT included) a contract, through Adif, for the construction of a new railway station in Totana, which will boost the service of Cerca Murcia and a further step in the development of the high-speed line Murcia-Almería, the strategic axis of the Mediterranean Corridor that connects us with Europe.
This Commuter service will be provided by the new high-speed line and will have six new stations, five of them in development: Alhama de Murcia, Librilla, Lorca San Diego, Almendricos and Alcantarilla. Murcia will thus have the first Standard Wide Vicinity (UIC) network, increasing its circulation capacity and reliability.
The station will have a passenger building and two platforms. It will be accessible and sustainable, will be integrated into the environment and will promote transport close to the city and the Region and its multimodality, by increasing the possibilities of linking the railway with other modes of transport.