In addition, the Spanish government approved this Tuesday an investment of 146 million euros for the Arkaute junction, the high-speed connection between Álava, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa.
The Council of Ministers has approved this Tuesday assign the execution of the Arkaute knot works of the High Speed Train (TAV) to the Basque governmentas it has previously done with other sections of the Basque ‘Y’. The Basque executive will therefore advance the money for the infrastructure and then collect it from the state, discounting the amount of the quota. In addition, the Spanish government has approved an investment of 146 million euros for the Arkaute junction, the high-speed connection between Álava, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa.
As explained in the press conference after the Council of Ministers by the spokesperson of the Minister, Pilar Alegría, this is a crucial step and the last major work of the Basque ‘Y’ and it is the basis that will allow Euskadi at high speed to connect with the rest of the Spanish state.
The Arkaute interchange is located near the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz and will include roads to serve the various branches of communication with the capitals of the Basque Autonomous Community, with Pamplona and towards Iparralde.
With the aim of this project, the first trains will start testing at the end of 2027 or 2028.
The agreement between the Basque and Spanish governments, so that the Arkaute knot of the Basque ‘Y’ is built by the Basque executive will be signed in Novemberas announced by the spokesperson of the Basque government, María Ubarretxena, at the press conference after the government council.
Ubarretxena congratulated herself on the approval of this item. “It is a positive step,” he said, defending that the fact that it is the Basque government that is carrying out the work “will give it speed”. In any case, he clarified that “the process will be long” because first the project has to be developed, the works have to be tendered and then carried out, and he has given the Abando tunnel as an example (which will allow the high-speed tunnel train to reach Bilbao enter), whereby only the implementation phase will last two years.
Source: EITB
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