The Government advances with the works of the Northwest Arch, but the other project remains stalled, according to a response to the Murcian senators of the PP
There is still no budget or calendar to execute the Arco Norte de Murcia, according to what the central government informed the Murcian senators of the PP. In a written response on the 7th, the Executive indicates that the Ministry of Transport “is working to tender the works of the North Arch of Murcia when budget availability and the prioritization of actions allow it.”
This project was presented four years ago to be executed with a 25-year concession, through a public-private collaboration formula, but until now it has not been put out to tender. There was a review of the contractual conditions and a query to the European Commission so that the work would not compute as a deficit.
Next to the Arco Norte, the construction of the third lane is associated with part of the A-7 motorway (from Crevillente to Alhama de Murcia), which is also paralyzed. The senators of the PP Francisco Bernabé, Violante Tomás and Juan María Vázquez asked the Government about both projects, which they will have to continue waiting for.
The Ministry of Transport is undertaking the Northwest Arc, from Archena to Alcantarilla, to link the A-30 (Cartagena-Madrid), A-7 (Alicante-Puerto Lumbreras), and the MU-30 and MU-31 (which connects Alcantarilla with El Palmar and Puerto de la Cadena). It will also connect with the Northwest highway.
The degree of completion of the Northwest Arch, 22 kilometers long and with a budget of 128 million euros, is over 30%, although it depends on the sections. The forecast is that it will be completed next year. This axis will remove more than 20,000 vehicles per day from the West Round of Murcia and will speed up road communications in the Region. The Ministry of Transport has budgeted 25 million euros to continue with the works this year, and another 29 million for 2023.
Bernabé: “It’s a punishment”
Senator Francisco Bernabé denounces that there is “continuous punishment of the Region. We are fed up with the eternal traffic jams on the ring roads of Murcia, and it seems that the Government of Pedro Sánchez has no intention of solving it. He adds that “there is no news” of the third lane of the A-7, “there are no forecasts” to build the Arco Norte; and the Northwest Arch “is only 30% executed after three years of work.”
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