translated from Spanish: Councillor of Las Condes advances second chapter in struggle for L7: we propose that there be no “intermodal station in Estoril”

“We’re going to use the tools that the democratic system allows us to use. It allows us the right to express ourselves, to publicize our ideas, we will propose this alternative to the Metro” said the councilor of Las Condes, Felipe de Pujadas (DC), defending the proposals that the municipality has made to locate the future station Parque Araucano de Metro Line 7.
In an interview with Radio Universo, De Pujadas noted that the Metro will receive us on Wednesday and that at that meeting they will raise their differences about the project and situations such as “where will the Parque Araucano station be located at a low cost for the Metro and how we’re going to allow access to thousands of people in that area of influence and that Las Condes is going to guarantee it,” he said. “Here there is a strategic planning of three communes, because it is not only the Araucano Park, this issue is a very hard negotiation that we are having with the Metro to extend the Metro to Lo Barnechea and that in Estoril there is no intermodal station, that is another fight. It’s chapter 2 let’s say, it’s going to be very hard.”
“Chapter 2 has basically to do with financing and there the financing has to do with how we as a municipality contribute money in the extension of the Metro, then the proposal that will be made to the Metro regarding Araucano Park will imply an aho I’m going to the Metro. With these moneys, part of the extension to Lo Barnechea (proposed by the municipalities) will be financed. We’re also going to put money and the talking point on the council, and that’s where I disagree with a proposal made by the mayor (of Las Condes), is that the funding can’t go through the same neighbors,” he added. “The proposal was that the financing of Line 1 to Lo Barnechea should be with a municipal TAG on the surface on Las Condes avenue and in addition to that an underground concession of Avenida Las Condes but with Tag associated with urban highways. So we were going to have a double tag, down and up.”
“I wasn’t a supporter of that,” he said. “There we have to look for the best loans in international credits by the commune of Las Condes, Lo Barnechea and Vitacura, see certain savings, we also have a discussion with the commune of Vitacura because it does not want to put resources for the extension of the Metro, the vitacura commune also owes us money from a piece of land in the Mapocho river sector in the field of social housing, I don’t know if you remember, you owe us that money too.”
“There is a whole triangulation of topics that are relating and are very complex. The Araucano Park is one of the chapters of this series called Metro extension,” he said.

Original source in Spanish