Government go-ahead for the environmental effect report to double the Torrevieja N-332

The Ministry of Transport got a positive Environmental Impact Report from the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge for the project to make the N-332 highway through Torrevieja twice as long.

The first big step towards finishing the work has been taken. It took six years to write the basic project and do the environmental review.

Now, the ministry will work on putting together the final project and showing it to the public so that bids can be made for doing the job.

Traffic jams

The variant only has one lane going in each way, and it carries 40,000 cars a day, or more than 50,000 cars in the summer. This makes access roads like the CV-95 at Hospital-La Veleta or the CV-905-Calle Orihuela very crowded every day.

The project will cost 55 million euros, which includes VAT. It will add two lanes, one in each direction, to a 4.47-kilometer stretch of the variant between the Hospital’s CV-95 road connections and the bridge on Avenida de Rosa Mazón (from kilometre 53.690 to 58.160 of the N-332).

Bárbara Soler, the PSOE spokesperson, said that this was because the PP didn’t follow urban planning laws in the 1980s and 1990s by not respecting the road’s right-of-way when they approved urban development projects. This is because the same road has been duplicated as a park route between Guardamar and Torrevieja and between Torrevieja and Pilar de la Horadada for more than ten years.