The members of the Socialist Parliamentary Group, Choni Ludeña and Jesús Navarro, met in the Regional Assembly with the Mayor of Caravaca de la Cruz, José Moreno, Mayor of Bullas, Mª Dolores Muñoz, Cehegín, José Rafael Rocamora and Deputy mayor of Mula, Francisco Javier Llamazares.
The mayors of the Northwest and Mula River have once again claimed to the Regional Government the withdrawal of the canon which retains annually, of 2.672 million euros, for the payment of the costs of construction, operation and conservation of the motorway of the Northwest-Rio Mula , Of the share that corresponds to them in the regional budgets.
The councilors criticized, in unison, that it is a "discriminatory situation, which contributes to increase inequalities with the rest of Murcia."
The socialist deputies said that "we are facing a historic claim of the Northwest - River Mula for which we ask for an urgent solution. We do not want the shadow toll of this highway because it subtracts each of these five municipalities invest in many other needs that have both And because the cost of this infrastructure is being paid by the neighbors. "
The Region of Murcia was in 1999, with the aforementioned highway, the first Spanish autonomous community to award a public work by the toll system 'in shadow' or 'canon on demand', to finance the project over a period of years Depending on the use made of it.
This infrastructure has been financed through this system since 2001, and the contributions are included within the territorialized expenditure that corresponds to each of the municipalities in the autonomic accounts, reason why it is seen as an investment realized although not Generates new performances.
The company "Sacyr" built the highway, whose cost was around 90 million euros and the Community pays each year to the construction company more than 10 million, last year paid 13.3 million euros, according to the traffic that Supports.
Source: PSOE Caravaca de la Cruz