The Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Óscar Puente, will contact directly the mayors of the localities most affected by the DANA in Valencia to offer means to repair roads and other infrastructures, if the Generalitat Valenciana still does not send him the list of the priority points where he could intervene. Three days after the expiration of the deadline of last Friday that the Consell had been given to send this information, this Monday has regretted that only has a “statement”, but without further details on the works that are necessary to perform or an order of priorities.
So say sources of Transport, which so far has intervened only occasionally at the request of two municipalities – Catarroja and Sedaví – but could skip the Consell in a generalized way to talk directly with them. This is the consequence of the fact that, for the moment, the Generalitat has only sent them a “statement” on the points where the central government could intervene, which is nothing more than a list of the destroyed villages and infrastructures, but without further details to organize or prioritize the intervention with state means as the different town councils are doing.
“I have been waiting for 15 days for a list with technical files and an order of priorities”, said Puente in an interview to RNE, about “a documentation that at the moment we do not have”. “I would like the Government to [valenciano] was more focused on the needs,” he added, after criticizing that he is tweeting about the third vice president, Teresa Ribera, but still without sending a detailed list of where he should direct the nine teams of the Ministry that are ready to intervene, particularly on roads and other infrastructure in more isolated places.
This Monday, Puente will meet again telematically with the Valencian Minister of Infrastructures, Vicente Martínez, to whom two weeks ago he offered the means and equipment of the Ministry to intervene in roads and other infrastructure of regional, provincial or local ownership, in the same way that it has acted in those of state competence, such as the High Speed network, Cercanías or the A-7 freeway.
After that first meeting, the Consell promised to send last Friday the list that Puente is still waiting for. The day the deadline expired, the Valencian government informed Transports that it was still unable to do so, but that it would send it in the following days, perhaps this past weekend, when it did not arrive with sufficient detail.
(there will be more information soon)