Adif delays the whole reopening of the Madrid-Málaga high-speed line to the tip of April | Economy | EUROtoday

The closure of the ultimate part of the high-speed railway route between Madrid and Malaga will proceed not less than till the tip of April, which suggests delaying the earlier opening date, which was set for March 23. In this manner, there will likely be greater than three months and not using a direct high-speed connection between each cities.

The president of the infrastructure supervisor Adif, Pedro Marco de la Peña, indicated this morning to the media that the work to revive visitors, after the landslide on February 5 close to Antequera (Málaga), will likely be prolonged for just a few extra weeks. Renfe will due to this fact proceed to be the one operator with service between each cities due to its different bus transportation plan.

Traffic on the Madrid-Andalusia axis was beforehand interrupted between Villanueva de Córdoba and the town of Córdoba resulting from infrastructure reform duties following the accident on January 18 in Adamuz (Córdoba). Just a few days earlier than the reopening, the rain storm that hit Andalusia in the beginning of final month brought on the collapse of a slope in Antequera, which led to the interruption of the road from that time to Malaga.

The aforementioned lower forces vacationers to journey by highway between Malaga and the Antequera-Santa Ana station, to proceed the journey by practice from there to Madrid. Previously, bus journey was required within the province of Córdoba because of the aforementioned accident.

The impossibility of the Iryo and Ouigo high-speed companies reaching Malaga, in addition to the limitation for Renfe trains, now extends to Holy Week, which is crucial for the Andalusian tourism sector. The Junta de Andalucía warned that authorized measures could be thought-about if this connection was not reestablished throughout Holy Week, which begins on March 29. Before that, the primary main vacationer occasion in Malaga was the Film Festival, which closed final Saturday.

With the non permanent closure of the route impacting its exercise, Iyro introduced on February 25 a brief employment adjustment that impacts 40 of its 654 staff, 6.1% of the workforce.