As required by the Railway Act and the Highway
MADRID, 8 (EUROPA PRESS)
Building a new railway line of high speed (AVE) or a new road should be guaranteed by law for a prior study of their social and economic return, as said the Minister of Development, Ana Pastor.
legal obligation to conduct such studies shall be set in the new Railway Act in the case of the railroads and the Highway Act, for roads, both adopted in the Council of Ministers on Friday.
“Once they come into force, is not going to do a single rail line without a prior and deep social and economic return analysis,” said Pastor in the press conference after the Council of Ministers.
In terms of roads, said that “will not be built without a rigorous pre-planning to determine their efficiency and economic and social return.”
The Cabinet finally approved on Friday the two new promoted by Fomento rules, which will now begin its parliamentary process.
The Ministry introduced the legal requirement for these schedules to coincide with the debate currently open on the advisability of investment in specific infrastructure such as the AVE.
In particular, the new Railway Act aims to bring together all the regulations on the sector and make more flexible the standards to facilitate the entry of new private operators competing with Renfe rail passenger transport.
However, the text establishes the requirement for a “strict” construction of new infrastructure through three instruments.
RAILWAY year plans.
planning First, the Act instructs the Ministry of Development the development of the so-called ‘Indicative Strategy’, with which the Department must make a planning of infrastructure, both its development and its maintenance and renewal.
Meanwhile, Adif will design your ‘Program Activity, “a five-year plan in which they materialize all actions and works that must undertake and will set a” guidance foresight “of fees to be charged in the period to operators rail for using the train tracks, stations and other infrastructure.
Development and Adif signed agreements in which the objectives established to be achieved in the implementation of these infrastructure programs and financial contributions that held the State.
In addition to forcing doing this planning to build new rail lines, the Railway Act eases the charging system to encourage the entry of operators competing with Renfe just as open to last Development ups AVE Levante.
ANALYSIS AND discourage the speculation.
As for the new Roads Act provides that new construction of roads should be subject to “an analysis previous efficiency and intermodality “.
Also, in order to curb land speculation in announcing the construction of a road, the new law will allow temporarily suspend as a precautionary measure in zoning which may affect road planning to avoid speculative activity.
Similarly, the Government may declare “null and void” urban planning decisions made without considering the needs of road management .
These measures are aimed at preventing the case of radio in Madrid and other toll roads recently built, currently in bankruptcy in part by the additional cost paid in expropriating land repeat . necessary for its construction
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