Salou. Costa Dorada. 25 January 2019.
The Local Government Board has approved the request for transfer of use of the space in favor of the City of Salou in order to execute the minimum works needed to adapt to the use of parking on a provisional basis for users of the future railway station. Portaventura The assignment lasts for four years. Before the entry into operation of the new Mediterranean Corridor and with the current change of layout of the rail line between Salou-Portaventura and Vandellós, from the City Council of Salou is designing the site and the complementary services that the future area should have. the central railway station of the municipality must be built.
Meanwhile, Adif works on the design of the prefabricated modules in the halt itself to provide a good service to the users while the new station has not been built. This will include a waiting room, an office and ticket issuing area, toilets and a warehouse; In addition to building a sidewalk between 50 and 70 meters along the facade of the station, with a place for taxis and buses that allow the loading and unloading of passengers. On the part of the municipal government, in order to foresee the parking of the important flow of vehicles that will circulate around the Joan Fuster avenue and that will need a space for parking - given that the current number of passengers is 700,000 people- has planned the signing of an agreement with the company Mediterranea Beach and Golf Community to obtain a plot of 6,000m2 of land for parking.
The mayor, Pere Granados, assured that, according to the forecasts agreed between the City Council and ADIF, the construction project of the new station would be completed in March 2019. After the award, the works would last for a year and a half, so that the end of 2020 would be finalized. "Having the new Salou-PortAventura station is a priority, because we can not forget the current movement of users who use the train to travel, adding the volume of Salou and PortAventura, and this requires sufficient, well-sized and quality services and even more when we are facing growth prospects and important investments that will increase the current volume of passengers ". He also pointed out that "for this reason it must be a station well connected to the corridor and with double track width".
The councilman of Land Management, Marc Montagut, said that "it is important to foresee the growth that this area will experience near the current stop and that will become the future station of the municipality", so "we have to work to put space in parallel, while the projects of provisional, and definitive station are developed and where the bus station has to be implemented ".
