Castellón, Cinderella

The people of Jose Joaquin Ripoll environment is usually episodic complain of marginalization faced by the province of Alicante by the Consell. But it seems, according to the investment figures, that's true.

Consider: In Terra Mitica, the lavish and Eduardo Zaplana project failed, it has spent over 200 million unrecoverable. On the other hand, the City of Light, which his last director, Elsa Martinez, tries unsuccessfully to remedy, is another bottomless pit every movie is filmed in his studies does a kidney to our public coffers, and less bad that there are filmed few, and that producers prefer the advantages of location and price offered by the square of Marrakech Moroccan.

The real Cinderella of public investment in the Community is Castellón. And not because the judicial process they are currently subject Carlos Fabra have tempered his usual belligerent to claim them, but because the economic crisis that has affected most strongly is this province. My colleague Jesus Montesinos, knowledgeable and suffering of the avatars Castellón, reminded me the other day the superposition of the industrial crisis (ceramics), agricultural (citrus) and tertiary (tourism). A disaster, basically.

Not long ago, still thinking about the megalomaniac Illusion World leisure project, but before that would increase the potential unoccupied brick cemetery, the council of Francisco Camps took the appropriate action to stop it. Still survives, however, the plan of a remote city of Languages, in five years, the head of which was made five former mayor José Luis Gimeno. You can see how far things trust in this community. But also, why this project as Salamanca or Granada are better equipped than us to teach the Spanish language?

From what it often is bury a lot of money on activities of uncertain profitability. This also applies to the airport is to open in the flat before the regional and municipal elections of May 22.

Is it logical to an expenditure of more than 200 million when 39 of the 48 Spanish airports have had deficits in the last year? Among them, remember, is the Manises, with an operating loss of 1.21 million. That strikes without drivers, pilots, ground staff ... and the cancellation of flights by the volcanic ash Dutch. Only the latter led to 248,000 euros.

I'm afraid Castellon airport will pass and the phantom of Ciudad Real, with a capacity of 2.5 million passengers but only three weekly flights from Ryanair and also subsidized. In our case, and the Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Inmaculada Rodríguez Piñero, the operator will receive 6 euros for each passenger less than the 600,000 a year, so the joke we can go for a peak.

There must, therefore, less spectacular ways but more useful to use the money for all Valencians. And while the Consell not give them, Castellón, unfortunately, will remain the Cinderella of a story that, at present, has no happy ending.