The Altzolan Tren Geltokia Bai platform has described the meeting with the Sustainable Mobility Commission of the Basque Parliament, held last week with their participation, as “disappointing”. The neighborhood group, which advocates for the maintenance of the railway station in Altzola, attended the meeting with many questions, “hoping that they would answer, if not all, a large part of them”.
However, they explained, “we returned to Altzola without an answer to any of the thirteen questions we raised”. Among other issues, the platform members asked the Sustainable Mobility Commission “why since 1997 only 8 of the 32 trains that used to stop in Altzola now do so, when EuskoTren drivers indicate it is possible, and the official schedule confirms it”.
Other concerns raised included why ticket vending machines have not been installed to prevent free travel and count these journeys; why EuskoTren states on its website that the Altzola station is accessible when users are forced to climb and descend 47 steps; why they should fear using the station at night, as it is practically in darkness; and why the construction project that eliminated the station was not published in the BOPV, unlike the informative project, which included the station and was published twice.
“"Altzolan Tren Geltokian Bai believes that the representatives of the PNV and PSE came to the meeting of the Sustainable Mobility Commission “with a script written from home; unprepared, without humanity, and with zero commitment to sustainable mobility”."
The platform noted that the representatives of the PP and EH Bildu, on the other hand, “intervened aligned with our demand, and with that of the 5,568 people who have signed to maintain the station”. As a next step, the neighborhood group will present a Non-Law Proposition in the Plenary Session of the Basque Parliament “so that all Basque parliamentarians are portrayed in a vote”. Furthermore, they reminded that “we also have the judicial route left”.
