"Its main purpose is to defend the Iron Bridge of Murcia, which according to press the Mayor of Murcia Ms. Patricia Fernandez, intended to be dismantled to make a new bridge and move the existing downstream, according to plans drawn up in the Ministry of Development and Infrastructure, Highways ", according to reports from the platform in a statement.
Platform believes that "with this project, if carried out, is an attack against the people of Archena in its cultural heritage, since the bridge is listed for its cultural relevance in the subsidiary regulations of Archena and protected by Law 4 / 2007 Cultural Heritage of the Region of Murcia, by the National Plan of Industrial Heritage and is part of the intrinsic landscape population Archena and Ricote Valley which has been input and almost unique reference for many decades, since its opening in 1942. "
According to the platform, "they have not provided details of the project, although their cost according to Patricia Fernandez, will be around 6 million euros".
The newly created platform will defend institutions and to the people of Archena dismissal and file of the project, and believe it totally unnecessary expenditure which this community and these people can not afford;
Since it is not true that either by traffic requirements, since there have been no technical studies indicating such a need.
Archena currently has two new bridges perfectly assume the solutions to traffic.
The Civic Platform wants to participate in the development and sustainable development of people through a position defending the harmonization of improvement and modernization of the same, bearing in mind the defense aspect of natural, cultural, scenic and Industrial;
and the characteristics and peculiarities that distinguish our people and to help make it a unique tourist destination, to offer a higher quality of life for its current and future inhabitants.
Source: Plataforma "Salvemos Nuestro Puente de Hierro"