Relocation of the sheds of Artà into three buildings situated in Artà and Son Carrió.
In the railway re-opening project, made public through the media in July 2009 for the second time, the first time being in December 2008, they have changed the locations of the garages / sheds in Artá.
The reason for the changes in location are due to objections made in December about a registered windmill located near the proposed sites in Artà.
The sheds in the December project were located at point 29+400, 600 metres from the end of the passage to Artà. In the project presented in July they were changed to point 28+600, 1600 metres away from Artà. In this case, the staff resident in Artà will now have to use their cars to get to work as opposed to being able to walk there, now that it is so much further away from the town.
On top of this, the change has also caused them to install some new sheds at point 12+800 in Son Carrió.
The change to the project is very significant. It means more land consumption and they have now decided to construct three buildings instead of one. In the first project there was only one garage / shed. In the second project there is a garage / workshop building with a warehouse / storage annex in Artà, and a couple of metres away there is an admin’ / office building. And in Son Carrió they have decided to build some new sheds. This also means an increase to the project globally.
In the first project it was clear that the required criteria used to locate the sheds was because they would be near a main road – quote: the highways and access roads to the sheds must be sufficiently wide enough to cater for the passage of heavy vehicles without causing a reduction in capacity of said highways (page 2 Proyecto de Reapertura de la Línea Estación de Empalme – Artá. Fase II: Proyecto Básico Manacor - Artá). With the new location of the sheds, particularly in Son Carrió this requirement is not fulfilled, since to get to the sheds in Son Carrió it is necessary to use the only street that goes through this small rural town and that, in addition, goes past the school.
Why? With what criteria?
The Anti Train Association asks what were the criteria that the engineers and politicians used to determine the new location of the garages / sheds. In the time that the basic project was displayed to the public it didn’t show any of these criteria nor did it state the space (m2) that the buildings would occupy and the difference in cost to use more land and to construct the buildings.
The locations of the sheds are as follows:
Location of the garage buildings in Artà at point 29+500 in the project of December 2008.
Construction of 3 independent buildings with the change in location in the project of July 2009. Garage building at point 12+800, Son Carrió and sheds, warehouse and offices at point 28+600, Artà.
