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Malaga metro enters its final stretch with its 12 km and 17 stations

26/07/2013

on July 26, 2013

The Minister of public works and housing of the Junta de AndalucíaElena Cortés, said that Malaga metro, "after a year of very strong momentum of the works, consistency and compliance of the commitments undertaken with the citizenry, is one step away from becoming a tangible reality that changed the city forever and for the better". "It is what paradoxically little is spoken, but that should be outline so all we do to the idea: the metro is almost here", said Cortes, who has made the journey in tests carried out by a unit of the subway along the path of lines 1 and 2 to the exchanger of 'El Perchel-María Zambrano', that it will enter into service at the end of this year.

The degree of implementation of this section, which represents 83% of the total of the route to La Malagueta, already reaches 93%. The total investment of the Junta de Andalucía en el metro de Málaga already amounts to 600 million euros. They work directly or indirectly in the work more than 1,600 people. "In a scenario of special difficulty, and despite the budgetary restrictions imposed by the central Government, the Junta de Andalucía is doing a decisive commitment to the Málaga underground, with more than 90 million in 2013", said Cortes.

The forecast of the Ministry is that the next leg, 'Renfe-Guadalmedina', executed at 70%, enters into service at the end of 2014. The Ministry has proposed that the rear section, 'Guadalmedina - La Malagueta', with that reach up to 20 million passengers a year, is performed on surface, which would put it into service in 2015, "avoiding a loss of up to 500 million euros of public money", has targeted cuts, which has emphasized that this formula "makes possible a more rapid metro, with a balance of 40 seconds, more accessible, which conjures archaeological and technical risks, the fig preserves and avoids the parking in the Marina".

"It also allows an extraordinary urban intervention in the Alameda Principal, recovering as promenade lounge. Pedestrian passes have 7% to 70% of space", said the Minister, who pointed out that surface Metro"city also gains in commercial potential and tourist attraction".