La estación de Murcia stopped operating in 1974, in 1992 a land transfer agreement was approved, and in 2026 the tracks are still there. On April 13, the residents of Alicante woke up expectant because the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, was in the city to present, together with the mayor Luis Barcala and the president of the Generalitat, Juanfran Pérez Llorca, the long-awaited Central Park project. Days later, Puente himself announced the tendering of a contract to advance another key project: the Torrellano variant.