Workforce Development does not give up and, a year after the extension of the El Prat airport was postponed due to the lack of an institutional agreement, insists on demanding the investment of 1,700 million for the infrastructure Barcelona. The entity has created a work commission made up of twenty representatives of the fabric business, economic and social to agree on an alternative with which to approach Aena again and ask it to reconsider the decision.
They give each other a nine-month term. In June, when the municipal elections have already been held and local pressures have diminished, they will have the proposal that, according to their President, Josep Sanchez Llibrewill have everyone’s approval: “What happened a year ago is history. There are those who believe that it failed CKDwho thinks he did it Governmentothers, Aena and others the City Council of Barcelonabut it doesn’t matter anymore”, he settled.
closed appearances
The commission is chaired by the president of the Chamber of Contractors of CataloniaLluís Moreno, who has admitted that nor do they consider that enlargement will not take place. In these months they will study the alternatives, listen to the experts in some appearances (which will be closed) and draw some conclusions. “I don’t know if the solution is to lengthen the runway, expand the Girona airport & mldr; we don’t know at the moment. We are open to everything”, he summarized.
However, from his words and those of Sánchez Llibre it was distilled that they will everything possible To find the formula that achieves the necessary supports. To begin with, and although no administration appears on the list, the president of Foment revealed that he has invited the mayor of El Prat, Luis Mijolerto participate in the commission for the expansion of the airport, despite the fact that the municipality is adamantly against of infrastructure growth.
whatever year
Beyond verbalizing that they want “lead” the business claim (inviting the Cercle d’Economia to join its initiative and avoid its own commissions on this matter) and to give the list of commission membersneither Moreno nor Sánchez Llibre have dared to clarify how it would be possible for Aena to reconsider the investment in El Prat with the investments of the Airport Regulation Document (known as DORA II) 2022-2026 already underway.
The alternative, Moreno has agreed without too much conviction, would be for the expansion of the Barcelona airport to form part of the next dora, which will start in 2027: “Hopefully it will be then”. And, again, another four years will have passed, and there will be municipal and nerves.
Connection with the world
Workforce Development argues that the Josep Tarradellas airport Barcelona-El Prat has a runway “long enough” to turn the facilities into a “platform connected to the world” that presents “the minimum environmental impact and promotes decarbonisation”. The commission has the motto “Barcelona connected to the world by an intercontinental airport”.
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Sánchez Llibre has underlined that there five million passengers of Catalonia who must travel to other cities to “connect with the world”: “Either we do it ourselves or they will expand even more decks and our third track it will be them”. Currently, according to the entity, there are 40 connections with capitals and it could go to 70.
The First meeting of the commission will be on Monday, September 12. What is clear is that the threat from the president of Foment that they were not going to “rest” Until the El Prat airport was expanded, it was serious.