Castile and Leon
End the unbearable delay of the Duero highway
marisol lopez
There are 467 kilometers between the town of Zamora, Alcañices, and the Portuguese border closest to Soria. On paper, this route should be seen as a fundamental axis connecting Aragon and thus the exit to the rest of Europe via Catalonia. But in practice this can be measured in 467 light years because it is one of the infrastructures that is decades behind.. Thirty years have passed since an ambitious project for the road known as National Highway 122 was put on the map. It is also known as the European Route E-82, as it is the fastest connecting route between Portugal’s economic locomotive Porto and France, and it passes the entire Duero Valley through four different provinces in Castilla y León.
It will never be possible to know with certainty whether the situation in the evacuated Spain in which it resides would have been different had it been built with the necessary speed. The only thing certain is the political quarrel that always erupts around the seventh highway on the Spanish-Portuguese border. The road that supports more traffic, still has many crossings and is considered one of the most dangerous of the Spanish roads.
The Pedro Sánchez Government boasted of having started 43 kilometers of the Duero corridor, finishing the legislature before 23J. This year’s General Government Budget included more than $100 million for actions in Soria, Burgos, Valladolid and Zamora. Studies in the province of Zamora affect the Portuguese border, where Portugal did its homework long ago. In 2007, the neighboring country’s government took over the 14.5 million international bridge over the Manzanas River. It connects La Raya with San Martín del Pedroso in Zamora, the first Spanish town. Now the Spanish Administration has announced that a 1.5 kilometer section will be worked in this area, which is part of the work of just over four million allocated by Moncloa to the west end of the A-11.
The neglect to convert it to a highway has no special character. Promises and reproaches change their authors as the initials of the party change in the government. Every year in the General Budgets, the relevant ministry then assigned the items that were not fulfilled. More than 20 million people dedicated to infrastructure appeared in the Zamora division from 2005 to 2021. No work has been done, and rightly so, members of a group called the Zamora Rural Coordination are wondering where those millions are going as the delay in expansion and the added lack of care cause a doubling. road insecurity. Highway construction is all kinds of obstacle course and unbearable slowness. It took five years (2000-2005) for the first 70 kilometer link between the capital Zamora and Tordesillas to enter service on a route that is also free from major geographical challenges.
A-11 is the priority in all infrastructure plans of the two major parties that have taken turns in the country’s government since the restoration of democracy.. Then forgetfulness. Contrary to this abandonment, Portugal has a clear path ahead. The IP-4 arrives at the aforementioned Quintanilha bridge, a high-performance road to the Porto highway. He also built the largest Iberian tunnel, called O Marão, with a length of 5,625 meters. Most likely, whichever party comes to power from Moncloa, the A-11 will be included in the 2024 General Budgets again. It is said that the works that are true loves are still in progress. in the field of chimeric.