In 1989, Margaret Thatcher launched the largest program of infrastructure development throughout the United Kingdom. The program aimed to improve the road network at that time. Missed No grandstanding, Roads for Prosperity was the name that was given, advertised as the largest road development program since the Romans.
The barrage of news and media coverage that has followed the implementation of the Madrid - Valencia in Spain, as well as the extension of the entire network of AVE in the country, well worth it mention, not explicitly declared but tacitly Trains for Prosperity, to paraphrase the case of Great Britain. The almost total absence in the media mass media voices critical of the AVE line from Madrid to Valencia, is a tangible indicator of explicit support and free of most of the agents that make the English society to this line and high-speed network in general, for nearly 20 years has been woven around the country. is very instructive to see the complete unanimity among all English political class about the suitability of the AVE project and more generally about the need to continue to drive with no infrastructure, in many cases at least, a critical reflection on the needs which aims to address the alternatives that may exist and the environmental conditions, social and urban planning can result. We have seen clearly in the inaugural journey of the line, where seats have shared political elements of different signs that have taken great care not to capitalize on the authorship of the project. There are moments of parking policy differences, the end of the win-win with the project. Everyone wants to be in the picture, which has its counterpart in votes have been satisfied patronage networks of the parties in the construction phase, which keeps the local centers of economic and political power, staged a prosperous future in terms connecting urban and job creation, although the figures are inflated, and is advertised the technological component of the Spain brand, so in need of foreign wink to give him economic credibility. But above all, continues to underpin the conventional economic approach, the one who defends the dogma that a greater investment in infrastructure will be more economic growth and prosperity. One approach that is responsible for the economic debacle produced for 3 years. The expansion of infrastructure is not only the other side of the housing bubble that have fed each other in the past 15 years. At a time when it becomes as necessary to change the economic model was never used more hollow and misuses that need by the political sector.
nonprofit One could say that if you want a mistake to agree to many more disparate leaders of political stripe, you put an infrastructure in its territory. Which shows little sense of discussion between our political class and its democratic culture away with the myth that infrastructure. For this reason, it seems to get some critics to show here with this project and the apparent false triumphalism that always surrounds the building, construction and operation of any infrastructure and especially AVE. Exercise becomes important if only for mental hygiene at the free unanimously favorable criteria. Also as a way to relativize the social need for rail projects raised by the capital's councils canaries.
So Carmen Miranda-Guash emphasizes Infrastructure and Development (Público. 17.11.2009) in as high-speed line connected during the 80 Paris and other French regions, favored from the point polo economically more developed of the two connected. It also mentions what Bel Germá The AVE: poor productivity (El Pais. 20/05/2010) indicating that if there is a complementary and comprehensive program to support the less developed urban core will produce a suction effect of economic activity by the larger center will harm smaller pole. A priori, the big opportunities are concentrated in the more developed cities. An effect that is widely studied and documented the cases of France and Japan.
From the same perspective Joan Olmos complaint Hurry, hurry (El Pais. 12/30/1910) the enormous amount of economic resources have been spent so far and which will result in the project hereinafter AVE. The author figure up to € 97,000 million in resources for the expansion of the network. A figure equivalent to Ireland's rescue plan by the IMF and the EU and invested in the existing railway network, greener, more efficient and cheaper, would have resulted in a democratization of transport. The author claims an ecological conversion of the transport system in Spain under the criteria pointed out by Antonio Estevan and Sanz Alfonso Towards ecological conversion of transport in Spain (1996) , a necessary book (and it seems that shortly followed despite its lucidity ) of this space of reflection has drunk to think of the current transport.
Alfonso Sanz himself hypermobility. Symptoms, reactions, and alternatives an article and discussed briefly in this space, questions the dogma of the infrastructure from a broader perspective and academic. The author emphasizes the negative component is in mega-projects that tend to warp, hipermotorización and hypermobility. Characteristics that cause a huge environmental cost is not covered in the plans and goes to the whole society. So does a defense of proximity as a step to recovery and revaluation of slowness, a criterion that would get time to balance the social and environmental values \u200b\u200bthat danger with this policy of unconditional support to infrastructure.
remember that the first AVE line opened in the year 92, almost 20 years ago (AVE Madrid-Sevilla). On 25 January the Minister of Development stated that for the first time in its history AVE received benefits during 2010 (AVE trains were benefits for the first time in 2010. The World. 01/25/1911) . Given these arguments it is impossible not to establish a relationship with rail projects proposed in the Canary Islands and no fear of them.
Photo 1: High Speed \u200b\u200bLine Lift corridor, passing by the reservoir of Contreras. In The Vigia.com
Photo 2: Tunnel occurred outside the tunnel in the town Peña Striped Valladolid Cabezón in the construction of the AVE. In ABC
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