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Granada’s A44 motorway to open by summer

The Motorway between the city of Granada and the coast will be fully open by the summer. The news came from Minister for Development, Magdalena Álvarez, when she visited Motril on Saturday.

The A44 autovía has been under construction for some years and news of its completion will come as welcome news for regular users of the route. Also known as the Autovía de Sierra Nevada, the motorway begins 190 kilometres from the coast in Bailén and travels via Jaén to Granada, from where it continues south to the coast. The final stretch to open will complete the 30 kilometres from Ízbor, passing through the gorge of the River Guadalfeo west of Las Alpujarras, to Motril where it will link to the coastal A7 Autovía del Mediterráneo.

The minister also announced that most of the A7 from Nerja to Motril, which presently runs only as far as La Herradura, will be open by the end of next year. The exception will be the stretch between Taramay and Lobres near Almuñécar where work was suspended after the deaths of six construction workers in November 2005 after a section of a viaduct crashed to the ground. Sra Álvarez said this stretch would be completed in early 2010.

Las Pedrizas
Meanwhile, last Monday saw the start of work on the new AP-46 toll motorway between Málaga and Antequera. The Las Pedrizas motorway will run from the Puerto de la Torre junction on Málaga’s planned second ring road to Villanueva de Cauche and is being built to relieve congestion on the busy A45 road. It will be 24.5 kilometres in length and will carry up to 17,000 vehicles per day. The project has a budget of 375 million euros and the road is expected to be open to paying customers by the end of 2009.

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