The City, through the Department of Sports, will promote the recovery of the old railway line via Cartagena, Totana for conversion as a greenway.
For this, the Hall has called on the public company Railway Infrastructure Administrator (ADIF), the Ministry of Development, to cede land use and negotiate with the Autonomous Community of the line transfer Cartagena, Totana.
Through this initiative aims to promote the establishment of an agreement between ADIF and the Autonomous Community of Murcia to develop the proposed alignment of Cartagena, Totana railway line and turn it as a way for cyclists and hikers use the old road between Cartagena, Totana.
In this sense, the Councillor for Sports, José Antonio Valverde Queen, reported that a study of rural and ecological tourism has just published the Economic and Social Council (CES) of the Murcia Region states that the recovery of greenways this region plays an interesting role in boosting socio-economic planning.
He recalled that the Tourism Plan 2006/2012 of the Autonomous Community of Murcia and he devoted a section to these pathways engaged in some old railway lines, some of them failed to build on the historical for several reasons.
The aim of these pathways, as reported by the mayor, was to recover and unite within the region to the coast as a more attractive supply of nature tourism.
The plan 2006/2012, in addition to the Northwest Greenway includes the recovery of the abandoned line between Cartagena and the town of Totana, 51 kilometers long and the branch line between Mazarron and La Pinilla.
This rail infrastructure Cartagena-Totana was included in the so-called 'Plan de Guadalhorce' of 1926, during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera.
Thus, Valverde Queen, said, "but failed to put the rails, it was marked around the track on the ground and even got up a station right in the municipal boundary between Mazarrón and Alhama, which was a complementary network modern, twentieth century itself. "
This project, which also did not contain a single level crossing, as the mayor said, "has found numerous and complex administrative difficulties for the legal reorganization because it is documentation of a century ago and also be cut off a few years ago by the construction of the former multinational General Electric. "
The Sports Council has been liaising with the national representative for Murcia, Sara García Ruiz, who has promoted, together with the Collective Vía Libre Cartagena, administrative procedures to enhance the momentum of this ambitious project.
For this reason the City of Totana is convinced of the advisability of establishing in the Region of Murcia the highest number of pedestrian and cycling trails as possible, prove this was the creation and promotion of the bike lane Librilla-Puerto Lumbreras in Today, it is running in the stretch-Lorca Puerto Lumbreras.
This proposed greenways should be, as stated by the mayor, a perfect example of the necessary collaboration between all levels of government to implement projects in the service of citizens.
Similarly, he recalled that there is a proposal in 2000, to adapt the old familiar New Way of Totana, so it is intended to update the efforts by the competent authorities today.
