Also the law that regulate the railway allows only that not useful assets of the railway can be sold, which is not the case of the station. At same time, the Passenger Group defending Central Station made a survey to know the number of actual passengers that will use the new station. Freight trains will suffer also because without the yard of the Central Station the present yard at Lorenzo Carnelli station will be congested. At present, Passenger Group is lobbying at Congress and made an alternative project to revitalize Montevideo Central Station without destroy railway infraestructure.
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The planned dismantling of the Gen. Artigas Central Station's infrastructure will adversely affect both cargo and passenger train services, as the train station migrates northwards half a kilometer, and the manoeuvering grounds disappear. Legal recourses are being taken. The Passenger Group in Defense of the Central Station claims that citizens will be adversely affected, as the train station's new location, farther away from the downtown area, which is the starting and end point of most trips, makes it more difficult to take the train. Trip times will increase, due to the need for connection times between one mode of transportation and another, as well as to trips on buses over more congested traffic lanes. In addition, the train station's new location is farther apart from the main urban transport axes.