Overview

• Adif has submitted its design for a pedestrian and cycle underpass with vehicular diversion via the Sociópolis bridge to public consultation and launched expropriation proceedings ahead of a planned tender later this year.
• The proposal envisions a subterranean crossing beneath the tracks to enhance safety and urban permeability while rerouting cars over the existing overpass 380 meters toward Valencia.
• A protocol signed in August 2023 requires traffic impact studies to prove no rise in road saturation, but it remains unclear whether findings from the UPV-commissioned analysis have been incorporated.
• Mayors Juan Ramón Adsuara of Alfafar and José F. Cabanes of Sedaví, backed by the Plataforma por el Soterramiento, have formally rejected the underpass and continue to demand a full railway tunnel.
• Critics cite a legacy of fatal accidents at the level crossing and point to last year’s DANA flood as evidence that underpasses in the zone are prone to hazardous inundation.