The City Council requests another meeting with the Ministry of Transportation to demand a new access to Estepona from the highway.

The mayor of Estepona, José María García Urbano, has requested a meeting with the Directorate General of Roads to know the status of the feasibility studies of this project so necessary for mobility in the municipality.

The mayor of Estepona, Jose Maria Garcia Urbano, requested last August 19 another meeting with officials of the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility to claim a new access to the city from the A-7 highway.

After the meeting held last November with the Deputy Director General of Planning and Operation, Rosalia Bravo, and the head of the Roads Unit in Malaga, Elena Fernandez, the alderman has requested a new meeting to know the status of the proposal and feasibility studies pending.

During the aforementioned meeting, those responsible for the Ministry of Transport undertook to analyze the problems and indicated the possibility of commissioning a feasibility study before the end of 2024.

The councilor considers that this meeting is necessary to know the progress that may have been made for the implementation of this new infrastructure, which would help to improve mobility in the municipality. In this regard, the Consistory maintains its intention to collaborate in the cost of the project and the execution of the works, in the event that the Ministry of Transport would give the relevant authorizations.

“Our way of governing is through collaboration between the different administrations, so we again show our willingness to pay with municipal funds this access and exit that is pending the authorization of the central government,” said the first mayor.

García Urbano is confident that the Ministry of Transport gives the green light to this action that would put solution to a problem that has been worsening at this point of the A-7 in recent years due to the progressive and significant increase in population, being Estepona one of the cities with the largest increase in population since 2023, according to data recorded by the INE.

In this regard, he stressed that Estepona has been recording significant problems of traffic jams in the accesses to the population center from the A-7, especially the one located on the branch that gives access to the Avenida Juan Carlos I, one of the main arteries of the city. These problems have been intensifying in recent months, generating situations that pose a danger to road traffic on the A-7, due to the collapse of vehicles that is generated at this point.

The Estepona City Council has proposed to the Ministry of Transport the need for a new access and exit to the highway through the area of La Lobilla or the Cuesta de Ronda, given the mobility problems generated on this road, which is insufficient to absorb the current volume of traffic.