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Isabel Pardo de Vera marks the spring of 2021 for the arrival of the AVE | Radio Galicia

In an interview at Chain Ser, the president of ADIF put date at the beginning of the AVE service to Galicia, “if the tests to Puebla de Sanabria go so well, and in the coming months we will put that section from Pedralba into service, I calculate that in the spring of 2021 we could have commissioning of the line, unless there is some serious incidence during the tests, a possibility that is increasingly minimized. ”

Isabel Pardo de Vera is optimistic sample “from the technical solvency”Regarding the arrival of high speed in Galicia; She claims to be very proud of the team that is developing the project.

During the interview, he explains the actions that the Railway Infrastructure Manager is developing these months and that have to do with the completion of the tests of the RTMS system. from the Zamora-Pedralba section to Puebla de Sanabria, “The tests are going very well”. When that section is started “in May or June” will mean a reduction of fifty minutes on the way to Madrid. Throughout this year it will also be tested from Puebla de Sanabria to Ourense to get the service up and running in 2021.

Isabel Pardo de Vera adds that the RTMS level 2 system will be implemented throughout the entire route to optimize the performance of the line that supports a speed of 300 kilometers per hour, 100 more than the ASFA system.

The implementation of this definitive system at the time of installation of the line slows down the deadlines but, in the long run, it represents an advance because “installing the RTMS with the line in operation is an ordeal for the technicians.”

On future travel times, he calculates that the Madrid-Ourense will last 2:15 minutes; Madrid-Santiago 2:40 and from there half an hour more to A Coruña. The duration will also depend on the number of stops and the offers of the operators. In this sense, he anticipates that the exploitation of the line to Galicia, within the current liberalization process, has aroused “great interest, there is also interest in cross-cutting services and in all sectors, not only in the railway, but also in the financial or air sectors that want to enter a sector that is very attractive. The requests have far exceeded the capacity we can give. “

Tensions with the Xunta

Asked about the controversy that always surrounds the arrival of the AVE and its deadlines in Galicia, the ADIF president believes that It is not “a constructive attitude and that it has a political intent because the AVE is already a reality.” He wonders why the Xunta did not maintain that demanding attitude in the past “when there were stoppages” and certain uncertainties about this and other high-speed projects; “At that time, some work could have been done from the Xunta,” he regrets. Pardo de Vera acknowledges that these controversies make him sad because “generating uncertainty about a reality harms the citizen, the conflict contributes nothing.”

In this sense, is willing to study the proposal of the Xunta to create a monitoring commission although, in his opinion, it does not make sense because “the AVE to Galicia is already a reality”. “There has never been any AVE commission requested by the Xunta when there was a risk about the execution of the works in other periods and I have been in ADIF for many years,” he explains. For this reason, the commission’s intention causes him doubts, “I don’t know if it is intended to incite any doubt, I certainly have no problem giving all the explanations, the maximum in ADIF in this period is transparency and communication ”.

As for the development of intermodal stations, he says that they are running without problems, the only difficulty is the clause of the Santiago agreement that limits the construction of the intermodal to exceed 3.5 million passengers.

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