Benissa–teulada Tram Viaduct Ready As Train Service Set To Resume

Train services betwixt Benissa and Teulada will resume connected Friday August 1 pursuing nan completion of emergency repair activity connected nan TRAM d’Alacant viaduct complete nan CV-740 road, nan location authorities confirmed this week.

The announcement was made by Vicente Martínez Mus, nan curate for Environment, Infrastructure and Territory, who visited nan tract alongside Raúl Llobell, nan politician of Teulada.

The works, carried retired by Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana (FGV), were launched successful early July aft structural defects were detected successful nan viaduct connected Line 9 (Benidorm–Denia). Rail postulation betwixt Benissa and Teulada was suspended connected Thursday July 4, and a replacement autobus work has since been successful operation. That work will travel to an extremity connected Thursday July 31.

Estructural reinforcements

According to Martínez Mus, load testing and last structural reinforcements were completed “on schedule”, meaning trains will erstwhile again run usually on nan afloat Benidorm–Denia way arsenic of Thursday.

The task was classified arsenic an emergency intervention, pinch a fund of much than €1 million, including useful and method supervision. The curate explained that nan repairs addressed information issues affecting nan span and eliminated immoderate imaginable risks to passing trains.

Road entree to Teulada on nan CV-740 has remained unfastened passim nan works, pinch astatine slightest 1 lane kept disposable successful each guidance astatine each times. However, intermittent lane closures are expected to proceed into mid-August arsenic workers region remaining instrumentality and machinery.

Record rider numbers connected Line 9

Martínez Mus highlighted nan value of nan statement for nan bluish Costa Blanca, recalling that Line 9 had completed its wider modernisation process successful January pinch nan opening of nan caller Algar and Mascarat viaducts.

“In conscionable six months, much than 600,000 passengers person utilized Line 9 betwixt Benidorm and Denia, making it nan fastest-growing TRAM way successful 2025, pinch year-on-year rider numbers rising by complete 10 per cent,” he said.

The statement connects cardinal towns crossed nan Marina Alta and Marina Baixa, serving some commuters and visitors successful 1 of nan astir visited parts of nan Alicante province.