Valencian government joins Aragón to demand double track on Teruel-Sagunto line
The Valencian regional government (Generalitat) will file formal objections alongside Aragón against the single-track plan for the Teruel-Sagunto rail section, a route key to Sagunto's rail links and the Port of Valencia.
Vicente Martínez Mus, the Valencian regional minister for Environment, Infrastructure and Territory, announced after the Consell's (regional cabinet's) weekly meeting that the Generalitat will challenge the decision by Spain's Transport Ministry -led by Óscar Puente since November 2023- to scrap the electrified double track on the Teruel-Sagunto section for cost reasons: an electrified double track would cost over €3.7 billion, versus a cheaper single conventional track. Martínez Mus called the plan "stingy" for an investment he considers essential to the future of the Cantabrian-Mediterranean Corridor (Corredor Cantábrico-Mediterráneo) and to the capacity of the Port of Valencia. The section links Sagunto with Zaragoza, one of Spain's major logistics hubs thanks to infrastructure like the Zaragoza Logistics Platform (Plataforma Logística de Zaragoza), which covers over 1,300 hectares and hosts companies such as Inditex and DHL. Aragón's regional government had already announced objections after the ministry's decision, and the Generalitat is now joining that effort, aiming for a high-performance rail line instead of what the minister called "19th-century infrastructure". According to Valencia Plaza, with additional background from Wikipedia.