There are only a few days left but the residents of the southern area of Murcia already see it as a reality. Each step, each operation aimed at opening the tunnel through which the train will pass they live it as a great event that brings them closer to a reality that they have dreamed of so many times.
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– Although the fight for the burying of the train tracks has been much more noticeable in recent years; with neighborhood gatherings on Tuesdays next to the Santiago el Mayor level crossing. Murcia carries over 30 years -since 1989- fighting to prevent high speed from breaking the promises of more than three decades and being the final blow to always live ‘on the other side’. The announcement of the arrival of the AVE became the fuse that lights the flame of something that they were willing to ignore without being heard, and what if they did, as part of a city they were not in willing to give up. The time had come to claim stronger than ever the disappearance of the train tracks from the surface that they were forced to pass through every day, whether it was to go to the doctor, to school, to work to shop or simply to visit family and friends. Moments of tension between neighbors and the National Police in one of the many neighborhood concentrations next to the train tracks / Pro-Burial Platform
Antonio Hernández, one of the spokespersons for the Pro-Soterramiento platform, has been on the Hoy por hoy Murcia program, where he recalled, with a certain nostalgia, everything he had experienced in recent years until reaching these days where they can almost step on above a tunnel that has conditioned the life of several generations of Santiago el Mayor, “up to 90 trains Every day they have come to pass through here, we have lived pending a barrier, the level crossing with which we all learned to live, children, adults and grandparents, always thinking that the day would come when we would only see that image in photographs “, tells us. Everything indicates that that day has arrived and that in just a few weeks, or less, they will see their A dream come true.
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Listen to Antonio Hernández, Pro-Bury platform, in Hoy por hoy Murcia on Play SER
–National Police agents drag one of the protesters / Pro-Burial Platform
Coinciding with the interview on Radio Murcia, the announcement made by the PSRM-PSOE has arrived for the regional government to grant the Pro-Burial Platform the Gold medal of the Region of Murcia “for its civic commitment and tireless struggle for more than 30 years”, for which the Socialists have already presented a motion in the Regional Assembly requesting the Government of López Miras said distinction.
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