The connection between Sevilla-Cadiz by High Speed continues to advance. The Rover Alcisa Group, through its two companies Rover Alcisa Constructions and Iberovías has contributed to the end of the high-speed line between Puerto Real and San Fernando, opened by the Minister of Development, Joseph White and the counsellor of Public Works and Housing Josefina Cruz, the mayors of both municipalities and the chairman of the Rover Alcisa Group, Alfredo Rodríguez Verdugo.

 

Senior representatives of the General Directorate of the Railway Infrastructure of Ministry and the Rover Alcisa Group also attended the event.

 In the picture, from left to right, José Luis Latvian, Director of Building of Iberovías, Jose Luis Macicior, General Director of Rover Alcisa Constructions, Juan Luis Mangas, masterpiece of Rover Alcisa, Eugenio Alvarez, General Director of Iberovías, Robert Peña, Javier Merinero, Site Manager of the Directorate General of Infrastructure, Javier Orrico, chief engineer of the Directorate General of Railway Infrastructure, Vicente Rodriguez, Director of the Central Zone of Rover Alcisa Construction, Manuel Herrera, deputy director of the General Director of Infrastructure and the President of the Rover Alcisa Group, Alfredo Rodríguez Verdugo.

In his speech, the Minister of Development stressed the importance of the work and announced that the High Speed will reach Cadiz in 2012. During the inauguration of the station of San Fernando, Manuel Herrera, deputy director of the General Directorate of the Ministry of Public Infrastructure was the one who told the Minister José Blanco technical aspects of this work whose main infrastructure consists of several performances.

Among the main building include a new double-track on ballast, with rail UIC 60 kg / m, PR-01 cross-purpose. And burring the track passing through the station of San Fernando, with a length of 1,100 m.

The construction of a new passenger building equipped with facilities for commercial use as well as parking for vehicles and development environment for complete integration. It has also been made to build two overpasses in pp.kk. 135 +527 and 138 +827, and three new underpasses in pp.kk. 142 +044, 142 +431 +885 and 143 to replace existing access affected areas and three structures to save Talanquera, Águila and Sancti Petri pipes, (70, 60 and 120 m long respectively). In addition, steps have been eliminated at 4 located in pp.kk. 137 +020, 138 +510, 140 +060 and 143 +925.

To integrate the underground station in the urban fabric, it is carried out a development of the free area. In this sense it is remarkable the Paseo General Lobo connection with Avenida Joly Velasco, the Boulevard realignment of the Avenida Joly Velasco to allow access to special transport facilities of military vehicles, the use of all available space on the slab at the rear of the station for a large park that enhances the use of the railway station and the pedestrian and bicycle path from there part to the marsh environment. Furthermore, this runs the connection of this with the existing parking in the Barrio de Bazan and packaging of the latter.

Also, it is planned bus turnouts on Avenida Carlos III for the relevant stops and inter-urban services, as reported in the transport consortium, has given continuity to the urban bike path planned by the City Council with the footpath that runs Natural Park of the Bahía de Cadiz, with the aim of promoting the use of non-polluting urban travel, in connection with media such as intercity rail, which in turn is complemented with a bicycle parking on the south façade station. In that sense, it has provided street furniture needed to integrate the environment of the railway station in the city and the services required for lighting, mains, drainage, telephone, water supply, irrigation networks, landscaping, etc.

 It has also changed the gazebo which houses the existing font on the Paseo del General Lobo on the road CA.33 and have provided various green areas with trees and shrubs around the station, and built in front of main entrance an emblematic clock and a checkerboard, looking to make this station not only a multimodal transport node, but a gathering social centre.