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Fernández-Ges, Andrés.

13. Agreement between Administrations: Zaragoza Alta Velocidad 2002, S.A

Since 1998 there had been several contacts between the different administrations about the
urban integration of the rail land in the city. The main issues have been agreed in previous years
but there was needed the agent to implement the operation. In February 2002 was signed an
Agreement between three institutions: The Ministry of Public Works, the Regional Government
and the City Council. The administrations signed in the Agreement (5) that they were conscious
about the centrality of the areas concerned which allowed obtaining capital gains once the
land was reclassified with buildable uses. They pretend reinvest those economic benefits in the
implementation of urban and infrastructural works. These actions could be listed in:

• Reposition of the existing railway infrastructures
• Integration of the new rail network in the local environment and landscape.
• Urban transformation of the soil land that abandon their railway system.
• Implementation of the road system that complement the former actions giving service the
new railway network.

The total investment projected in 2002 was 414 million Euros. In 2006, the projection raised to
1 billion Euros. In the year 2016, the total investment realized were almost 600 million Euros,
and the pending works for urbanization and rail works transfer. To reach these goals, the three
Administrations agreed creating a society to facilitate the coordination of the railway works
and to promote the urban transformation derived from the changes in the rail system. The
society was created in June 2002 with the name of Zaragoza Alta Velocidad 2002, S.A. (ZAV from
now on), that could be translated as Zaragoza High Speed. The main tasks of the society were:
• Developing urban proposals for the land transformation.
• Hiring, execution and payment of the different works

• Selling the new parcels and buildable surfaces derived from the planning implementation.
The first duties for the society were to define the urban planning for the requalification of the area and
to hire the contracts for the relocation of the railway framework to the logistic platform PLAZA, nearby
the airport. This new area included a new goods station, facilities for repairing trains and train depots.

Fig 18. The relocation of the rail platform infrastructure next logistic platform PLAZA and the airport. Source: ZAV.

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