This Saturday begins ten daily frequencies sense that cut in 47 minutes travel time by train
VIGO, 18 (EUROPA PRESS )
The Atlantic AVE shaft, connecting A Coruña and Vigo, is put into commercial service on Saturday, with an offer ten daily frequencies in each direction that will link the two cities in 83 minutes travel time yielding a decrease from the current 47 million.
This AVE connection thus becomes the first to be launched all planned for this year, which Fomento plans to open 1,000 new miles of high-speed railway, linking with Zamora, Burgos, León, Palencia, Castellón, Murcia, Granada and Cadiz.
The Atlantic Axis will open after the Minister of Development, Ana Pastor and President Xunta de Galicia, Alberto Nunez Feijoo, do special last March 30 the first test ride this rail infrastructure, the ministry has received an investment of 840 million euros during the present Legislature.
The new line cross Galician AVE has a total length of 155.6 kilometers. The commercial service on this line will stop at the stations of A Coruña, Santiago de Compostela, Arousa, Pontevedra and Vigo-Urzaiz.
To them, local services add that, on trains current, connect the different populations of the corridor with major urban areas.
Travel times the Atlantic axis will be enhanced in all courses and will be reduced by up to 58%. Thus, the route between Santiago de Compostela and Vigo will be held in 50 minutes, the connection between A Coruña and Vigo in 80 minutes; and the link between Vigo and Pontevedra, in 15 minutes.
Also, will increase the supply of places by almost 40% over the current, from 185-282 seats per day. In any case, Renfe announced he would not rule adapted to the needs and demands of users.
Prices
Renfe keep the ticket price Trains new service, the like that of local services. The round trip ticket between A Coruña and Vigo will cost 29 euros, the A Coruña-Santiago 11.8 euros, the ticket for travel between Santiago and Vigo 17.8 euros; and between Pontevedra and Vigo, 2.8 euros.
Also, for the first commercial trip on Saturday, Renfe has launched a “special” rate by applying a 50% discount on all tickets corridor, so users know “the new trains”.
INTERMODAL STATION
With the launch of the Atlantic Axis, also the new terminal is commissioned Urzáiz- Vigo, in which Public Works has invested over 120 million euros.
It is expected that this station can be intermodal, for which last March 30 was tendered the drafting of construction new bus terminal Urzáiz that in 2016, once it is built, will join the station AVE.
Also, the train station of Santiago de Compostela will also be renovated to accommodate new services of High Speed in a performance with an investment of between 15 and 20 million in its first phase.
SYSTEM SECURITY AND ERTMS
The High speed between Vigo and A Coruña enter into Operating without the security system ERTMS, which lacked the railway line that in July 2013 accident Angrois (Santiago de Compostela) was recorded.
Adif tendered on 7 April contract for the implementation of this system of protection in the Atlantic Axis for about 68.7 million euros, with a maximum deadline of works of one year and a maximum term of validation testing and commissioning of six months.
Despite the lack of ERTMS, the Galician Minister for the Environment, Land and Infrastructure, Ethel Vazquez, said the new fast train between Vigo and A Coruña become operational “in strict compliance with the regulation” and “very stringent security controls and rigorous security protocols”
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