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Long Term Implications of HSR on Small cities: Ciudad Real and Puertollano revisited 25 years after
the arrival of the HSR

3. Statistical Data Comparison over 25 years

The paper tries to do the same analyses that were undertaken 15-10 years ago, to
evaluate those implications/impacts that have been consolidated on a greater long-term
perspective and those which have changed and/or disappeared (less permanent more
variable).
Ciudad Real and Puertollano are compared to other similar cities, as it was done in
Serrano, et al. (2006) and previously in Fariña, J, Lamiquiz, F y Pozueta, J. (2000).
Ciudad Real is compared to other small provincial capitals and Puertollano to other small
industrial cities, in both cases cities which are neither close to the seaside nor to the five
bigger Spanish metropolitan areas (at least 80 km in both cases) –see Table 2-.

TABLE 2. Cities compared with Ciudad Real and Puertollano

CIUDAD REAL PUERTOLLANO

Albacete Andújar

Ávila Baeza

Badajoz Bailén

Cáceres Bolaños de
Cuenca Carolina (La)

Huesca Daimiel

Jaén Linares

León Manzanares

Lérida Pozoblanco
Lugo Solana (La)

Orense Úbeda

Palencia

Soria

Teruel
Zamora

Fuente: Fariña, et. al., 2000.

None of the cities compared had HSR at the previous two comparison moments, while now
some of those compared with Ciudad Real have HSR. This is the case of Albacete (2010), Cuenca
(2010), Huesca (2005), Lérida (2003), Orense (2011) and Zamora (2015).

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