End Of The Line

Velez-Malaga is saying thanks, but nary acknowledgment to a €3.7 cardinal assistance from Spain’s cardinal authorities meant to bring nan city’s long-abandoned tram backmost to life.

The section assembly says it’s conscionable not worthy nan costs aliases nan headache. They opportunity that reactivating nan tram would costs a whopping €15 million, a measure that would rustle up nan city’s fund and connection small successful return.

According to nan officials, correct now, that intends nary to trams and yes to different things: boosting thoroughfare cleaning, building astir 300 affordable homes, reviving nan historical centre pinch caller parking spaces, and reopening nan Lope de Vega Theatre.

Technical reports reviewed by nan assembly opportunity nan tracks, catenaries, and rolling banal are each successful bad style aft years of neglect. Refurbishing it each would beryllium a awesome financial and logistical lift. And besides a lonely one, since nary further thief from Madrid is expected.

Meanwhile, nan authorities is still moving connected a coastal railway feasibility study that could yet nexus Algeciras to Nerja, a overmuch bigger imagination for mobility connected nan Axarquia. Until that’s clear, Velez-Malaga isn’t placing its bets connected an aged tram way that erstwhile struggled to break even.

Local leaders opportunity nan early lies successful cleaner, much adaptable solutions for illustration electrical buses. They screen much ground, costs little to maintain, and activity amended successful a metropolis pinch Velez’s scattered municipality layout.

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