PSOE unveils regional investment plan to boost Granada transport and hospitals after PP criticized funding in Guadix

Granada’s election fight has turned into a fight over concrete — roads, rail, hospitals, and who actually gets things built. That matters because a lot of the province’s big promises have been hanging around for years without turning into finished projects. On May 2, PSOE de Granada tried to reset the argument by unveiling its provincial platform for the Andalusian election, with a package built around transport links and public health infrastructure. The message was simple: Granada has been waiting too long, and a socialist regional government would move the backlog. ### What did PSOE actually announce? The party’s Granada platform puts a few flagship promises right at the top: extend the Metro to Federico García Lorca Granada-Jaén Airport, give Motril a rail connection, revive the Darro-Iznalloz motorway project, and build the hospitals planned for Huéscar and La Alpujarra. It also wraps by PSOE de Granada as its opening offer in the Andalusian campaign. ### Why those projects? Because they hit Granada’s three sore spots at once — mobility, territorial imbalance, and healthcare access. The airport still lacks a Metro connection. Motril remains one of the big coastal cities in Spain without rail. And the northeast and Alpujarra areas have long complained that major health infrastructure bottlenecks people already know. ### Where does Guadix fit in? Not as the headline project, but as part of the political backdrop. Guadix has become one of the places where PSOE and PP keep accusing each other of neglect — over municipal management, provincial priorities, and whether higher-level governments are sending enough money and attention to the area the metropolitan area gets the visible works. ### Why is transport doing so much work in this campaign? Because transport is where delay is easiest to feel. If the Metro does not reach the airport, travelers notice. If the coast has no rail, businesses notice. If motorway links stay half-resolved, drivers notice every week. PSOE has also been attacking the Junta’s metropolitan transport plan, the PP’s record in regional government. ### And the hospital promises? Those are politically potent because they combine geography and public services. Huéscar and La Alpujarra are not fringe talking points inside Granada province — they are shorthand for whether people outside the capital get the same access to care. PSOE framed the projects as polished. ### Is any of this brand new? Not really — and that is part of the story. Several of these ideas, especially the Metro-to-airport push, have circulated for years in one form or another. The difference now is that PSOE has bundled them into a single election-era provincial offer and tied them to a direct argument that the current political case. ### What is the real test now? Whether any of these promises can escape Granada’s usual trap — being permanently “pending.” Election platforms are easy. Route studies, budgets, tenders, land, and construction are the hard part. The catch is that Granada voters have heard versions of these commitments before, so the credibility question is brutal: who can show a timetable, not just a map. ### Bottom line? This is PSOE trying to make Granada’s missing infrastructure the point of the campaign. If that frame sticks, the election becomes less about slogans and more about which party can finally turn long-promised links and hospitals into real works.