El TREN SECRETO que España lleva 15 años construyendo y Europa amenaza con dejarde financiar
Bastidores Espana
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Let's set the scene. We're talking about the Cantabrian-Mediterranean Corridor, specifically its most problematic section: the high-speed rail connection between the Basque Country and the Meseta Central plateau. This infrastructure has been listed as a "priority" in official documents from Adif (Spain's railway infrastructure manager) and the Ministry of Transport since 2009. A priority. Fifteen years later, there are half-finished tunnels, abandoned viaducts, and ghost stations that have names but no trains.
The overall project is called the Basque Y, and it's the high-speed rail network that should connect Bilbao, San Sebastián, and Vitoria-Gasteiz, and all three cities with the rest of the Spanish network and with France. On paper, it's the key component of the European freight and passenger corridor running from Lisbon to Kyiv. Without the Basque Y operational, that corridor has a gaping hole right in northern Spain.
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El TREN SECRETO que España lleva 15 años construyendo y Europa amenaza con dejarde financiar
Bastidores Espana
432 views
Let's set the scene. We're talking about the Cantabrian-Mediterranean Corridor, specifically its most problematic section: the high-speed rail connection between the Basque Country and the Meseta Central plateau. This infrastructure has been listed as a "priority" in official documents from Adif (Spain's railway infrastructure manager) and the Ministry of Transport since 2009. A priority. Fifteen years later, there are half-finished tunnels, abandoned viaducts, and ghost stations that have names but no trains.
The overall project is called the Basque Y, and it's the high-speed rail network that should connect Bilbao, San Sebastián, and Vitoria-Gasteiz, and all three cities with the rest of the Spanish network and with France. On paper, it's the key component of the European freight and passenger corridor running from Lisbon to Kyiv. Without the Basque Y operational, that corridor has a gaping hole right in northern Spain.