In these intense weeks in which everything is demonstrations, today another one with a very different objective sneaks in: the demonstration of the business sector along the Mediterranean corridor. This Mediterranean periphery, united in a common objective, will today ask for agility in the construction works of a railway line so that more freight and passenger trains can circulate as soon as possible in connection with Europe. And everyone fits into those demands.
The Valencian businessmen, who have been leading this company for some time, along with the Catalans, Andalusians and Murcians, will ask for it. They will insist that we must complete the radial Spain with the circular one and they will repeat it in an auditorium in Madrid that yesterday showed so many differences in the political field.
Far from politics, which joined late, but did so in response to the demand for the corridor - today David Lucas, Secretary of State for Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, will intervene -, they will also participate in the meeting organized by the Quiero Corredor movement, led for the Valencian Association of Businessmen, the president of Iryo; that of RENFE or the general director of Ouigo España, all companies that already offer a cheap and fast service on their Valencia-Madrid connections and that aspire to be able to do so soon between Barcelona-València. At the moment, the 15 euros for a ticket to Madrid have no competition. Going to Catalonia continues to be better by car than by train, with all that that entails for finances, tourism or industry.
For the industry, the need is undeniable. Thus, it is understood that Javier Rivera, CFO of PowerCo Spain, the company that is building the next Seat-Volkswagen battery gigafactory in Sagunt, will speak at the event today, a location that he chose precisely, and among other reasons, for the good communications of the Valencian Community.
For the financial sector, it is also essential that communications in the Mediterranean be facilitated and streamlined. Ask any businesswoman who dreams of leaving the València-Joaquín Sorolla station at seven in the morning and arriving at Plaza Catalunya around ten. Meeting and working with those who always ask him when he will be back and telling them “soon” before returning to Sants station again to be home at dinner time. It seems like a dream, but in that faster and cheaper train trip the businesswoman would avoid the many trucks that crowd the AP-7 and that travel in a hurry to get to the next polygon to park, unload and leave before the other.
In that fantasy, now more palpable according to the latest indications from the European Commission, of an efficient, fast Mediterranean train on a European platform, the Valencian tourist visualizes the Esplanade of Alicante just an hour away from his portal and feels with his hands the structure territorial that many talk about. There is nothing better to understand each other than talking a lot and that is easier if you are closer, if you see each other more.
Hidden in the desire of this industrialist, businesswoman or tourist is a demand for greater investment, for greater priority in infrastructure that would make life, the economy or road traffic in this periphery more fluid. Surely they would amnesty the oblivion to which they have been subjected if the train arrived in Barcelona in two hours having paid only 15 euros.
