- There is so little transparency in the evolution of the budget for the works of the TAV, that everyone jokingly receives no news that is generated every time. And nothing to say with the start date. It is shameful to see the Basque Government councillor, Arantxa Tapia, who has competence in this matter, and after saying that, the word is eaten. But Basque Y is not a matter of laughing.
It is a very serious matter from the outset. Seen as “a State issue”, the institutions have never wanted to question, let alone claim a debate and a referendum.
The leaders of this anti-social initiative against citizenship, the governments of Madrid and Vitoria-Gasteiz, budgeted in 2006 a total of 175 kilometers for a work: EUR 4.178 million. Hence 40% through the quota to be paid by the autonomous government of the CAV, EUR 118 million came from European funds and EUR 2500 million would be provided by the Spanish Government. After several dates of completion of the works, it is currently estimated that it will not be launched until 2023, and the cost has increased by EUR 2 billion, to EUR 6 billion. It has been known these days that underground access to the TAV in Vitoria-Gasteiz will cost us EUR 150 million more, 20% more than originally planned, a total of EUR 872.2 million. At the moment, the cost overruns at the Donostia and Bilbao stations are unknown.
Madrid and Vitoria-Gasteiz have never stopped making a democratic debate on an infrastructure such as the TAV, but society needs to know, euros to euros, how and why they are spending the taxes of the citizens on the Pharaonic work. A comparative data: The new hospital in Eibar has cost EUR 28 million, according to the same sources.