📋 Tender Overview
The Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility Oscar Puente has traveled between Badajoz and Plasencia on the S106 train to learn first hand how the tests of the modern ERTMS signaling and safety system are carried out which will allow traveling to 300 km/h in Extremadura.
The Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility Oscar Puente next to the train driver.
The first tests which began on March 27 consist of the auscultation of the infrastructure and catenary on both roads at a growing and staggered speed between 200 km/h and 300 km/h. We are testing the ERTMS with the intention of being able to request the authorization of commissioning to the Railway Security Agency at the end of the year and thus connect Badajoz with Madrid in Madrid in Madrid in Madrid4 hours or even less said the minister after attending the tests in the standard stretch of 150 km/h. Minister has advanced that Baipas de Merida countsFrom today with the authorization of the Railway Security Agency for its commissioning and that the duplication of road between Aljucen and Merida is already under construction which will improve the capacity of the section and the access therefore of high speed to the city. Time improvements associated with better infrastructure and better services. In short investment and advances in Extremadura. It is important that you say it: it is not done. changed he saidEU of high speed of this way the ministry through Adif advances in the development of high speed in Extremadura with a high rhythm of investment. In concrete in the second section of the high speed line of Extremadura the Talayuela-Plasticness the works advance at cruise speed. The construction of the platform and structures (tunnels viaducts clearings higher steps ...) of four of the eight subtrams in which the 70 line of 70s has already been completedkm in works and ADIF AV is already tending the contracts to address the electrification and assembly phases of the road as soon as possible. In this point the minister has confirmed that the works of the platform will be completed in 2025 Adif has executed or is executing investments by 1.208 million euros in the Plasencia-Caceres and Talayuela-Plannce sections: 43% of the total planned for both routes which amounts to 2775 million euros since 2004. At the moment the investments executed or in execution in the two routes is 2317 million euros 83% of the total which implies that in the last 7 years between 2018 and 2025 as in the previous 13 years. Avancing Madrid the Ministry of Transportation and Mobility supportedBle works on the definition of the third and last section the Madrid-Oropesa of 200 km of the future high-speed line of 437 km which will link the capital with Extremadura and the Portuguese border and strategic axis of the Atlantic corridor. We worked to unlock the Manchego Castilian section that would not be like this if others had not let the Environmental Impact Declaration (day) said Extremadura the impulse to high speed is a clear example of theMinistrys commitment to the development and improvement of infrastructure in Extremadura. In 2017 the ministry that now directed invested 90 million euros here. Last year we have exceeded 300 311 million to be exact a rhythm of investments that will remain increasing because the tenders have increased exponentially. Specifically since 2018 about 1.9 billion euros have been tendered in Extremadura 260 million euros annual average frontat the 21 million euros that were tendered in 2017. At the rhythm it was tendered in Extremadura in 2017 there would be 90 years to reach what we have done in just over 7 years said the minister. continuously the speed of the train and governs its march through signaling in the cabin.The system is the result of an EU initiative to move towards the interoperability of railway circulations between the countries of the Union. ERTMS integrates signaling and control of the railway traffic of infrastructure with the equipment embarked on the rolling material ensuring the highest standards of reliability and safety in the management and supervision of rail traffic. Development objectives supportIBLE (SDG) 9 (Promotion of reliable sustainable and quality infrastructure) 7 (sustainability) and 8 (Employment and Economic Growth Creation). European Financing This action may be co -financed by the European Regional Development Fund (Feder).
