Private investment will be sought for the most profitable stretches of the line. The Andalusian regional government this week admitted that is was having problems finding the 4,000 million Euros needed to build the Estepona to Malaga costal train line, and is drawing up a project designed to encourage private investment in the more profitable stretches. Work would then start first on these parts of the line. Josefina Cruz at the helm of the Junta Public Works Department said in Malaga on Wednesday that she was clarifying the travel demand forecasts for the future train in order to attract potential investors. She also mentioned the possibility of funding from the European Investment Bank whose vice-president is the former Department Minister Magdalena Alvarez. Despite the financial difficulties, Cruz is confident the central and regional governments will work together “Because the Costa del Sol needs this new means of public transport”.

Many normal people like me want the train from Malaga, passing the Malaga International Airport and all the way down to Estepona. It’s a dream for the last 15 years, but the local Mayors in Fuengirola, La Cala, Calahonda, Mijas, Elviria, Marbella, Puerto Banus and Estepona together with the politics in Andalusian Government is the problem, we have seen this so many time before, everyone is trying to steal a big piece of the money purse for themselves by get parts of the buildings contracts and everything around this huge project to their families, cousin and friends to ridiculous over prices with huge profit for themselves. No one is going to invest in this project. Its going to stay as dream this train line, if not the Andalucian Government take this project out on an open EU market with a normal bidding procedures for all the big builders in Europe and gets a much lower price and no local bandits involvement.

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