Local neighbourhood demands to improve the condition and resolve incidents that occur around the railway line as it passes through Sitges have been transferred to ADIF, the organisation responsible for managing and maintaining Spain’s railway infrastructure.
The Sitges Town Council, through its Department of Urban Services, has collected the complaints from the residents of the area and forwarded them to ADIF.
Thus, issues such as the concrete detachments from the top of the tunnels under the bridge of the ‘Pont dels Ocells’ and the tunnel under the station – from Avinguda de les Flors to Carrer de l’Hort Gran – have been put on the table, as well as the maintenance and pruning of vegetation and weeds in the areas close to the tracks, the maintenance and cleaning of the car park between Carrer de Sant Honorat, the Carretera de les Costes and the train track, in addition to the repair of the slope of the track above Cala Morisca.
The concerns and complaints have intensified following the derailment of an empty Talgo train in the town on 15 August, at the height of Carrer Sant Honorat, and there are specific concerns in the neighbourhood where the homes are near the track.
Local residents have complained above all about the speed with which, they say, the trains pass through the town, and which increases the noise. In particular, they have noted that freight trains ‘go at full speed at night’.
According to the train operator RENFE, it is common for these types of trains to pass at night, and they said that, precisely from 14-17 August, there was a total cut-off of traffic on the interior line, and that’s why they weren’t passing through Sitges at the time of the Talgo derailment.
The local Sitges residents affected by the railway line intend to set up a neighbourhood platform to further transfer their demands to the administrations.
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