He Cadiz summer It is synonymous with sun, beach, umbrella, chiringuito and jam. All ingredients that will not be missing in the fridge. It is the new toll after the end of toll. The rise of tourism, the strength of the Cádiz brand as … Destination and the gratuitousness of their main access have caused the collapse to be passed from the historical congestion. A series of decisions have been made that has positively resulted in the attraction of visitors (and in the circulation of transporters) and has been wrongly wrong in the non -granting of infrastructure according to this development.
Therefore they are usual third world images in the summer season, with a kilometer tail of cars on the old AP-4 Sevilla-Cádiz highway; With stops even to ‘ball’ between cars and sanitary interventions to hydrate the most vulnerable in the days of intense heat. The main Spanish southwest artery, access road of Sevillians and Madrid, suffers a notable intensity of vehicle circulation daily and is blocked in vacation peaks: holidays, bridges and summer season.
This year it will happen again because the actions have been late and do not reach the necessary cruise speed due to its urgency. The Ministry of Transportation already has announced the construction of a third lane By 2027, although it is a project that is born with severe shortcomings. And it is only to the province of Seville, the section between two sisters and the heads of San Juan. It is the part where there is a greater concentration of vehicles daily, made indisputable because the numbers do not lie. But these figures are exceeded by reality: the displacements multiply in the festive and summer days and the use of the road far exceeds that interval.
Therefore The cry is unanimous Among users. And of course among responsible politicians and business. Again they undertake a campaign to demand from the government of Spain the expansion of that third lane not only until the heads of San Juan, but also Even Jerez de la Frontera. “This situation greatly harms our economic development,” he said Javier Sánchez Rojas, which in a few days will cease to be the president of the Confederation of Entrepreneurs of Cádiz. “The eighth province in the population of Spain, Cádiz, and the fourth, Seville, need a radical improvement in the connections between the two, which are overwhelmed,” he insisted. “We cannot be subjected to the Third World in infrastructure,” reinforces the Jerez Mayor María José García-Pelayo.
«There is a large influx of vehicles, including those of great tonnage that use it, given the gratuity that is currently enjoyed,” he points out Antonio de María, president of Horecathe hospitality employer. «50 years ago. The design of the highway was more than enough for the service that was demanded, but the increase in the mobile park and the mobility of people especially in Seville-Cádiz make that at specific times and especially in a summer season the circulation is impossible. Last year we have had kilometers when arriving in Seville and of course the alternative is not the national road that is like we all know pending expansion ».
Construction of the third
lane in AP-4
Dos Hermanas – Las Cabezas de San Juan
Expansion of
capacity between
Two sisters and
future link of
The palaces and
Villafranca Sur
Expansion of
capacity between
future link of
The palaces and
Villafranca Sur
and the heads
of San Juan
Remodeling
of the link of
The heads of
San Juan
Source: Own elaboration
Chart: A. Montes / ABC Sevilla
Construction of the third
lane in AP-4
Dos Hermanas – Las Cabezas de San Juan
Expansion of
capacity between
Two sisters and
future link of
The palaces and
Villafranca Sur
Expansion of
capacity between
future link of
The palaces and
Villafranca Sur
and the heads
of San Juan
Remodeling
of the link of
The heads of
San Juan
Source: Own elaboration
Chart: A. Montes / ABC Sevilla
The president of Diputación, Almudena Martínez (PP), It demands speed to the ministry. “It is a work of urgent need for the province of Cádiz that can not wait any longer,” he says. «The central government has only confirmed the construction of the third lane in the section of the province of Seville, renouncing to execute the rest of the layout at the moment, the corresponding to Cádiz. This, in addition to a discriminationsupposes another summer of collapses on the road, a ballast for tourism, for citizens, for companies and for the image of the province. We cannot expect 20 years ».
An economic ballast
Limiting the problem to traffic jams on Fridays and on Sundays on summer is very reductionist. It is a brake on development. The businessmen’s representative speaks of “economic ballast”. «If we want to grow, from the industrial point of viewfrom the tourist point of view, we need to have better communications, ”says García-Pelayo. “The deficiencies in communications between Cádiz and Sevilla affect citizen mobility, tourism and the expansion of companies, which means worse quality of life, less local economic development and, therefore, less employment,” Martínez reiterates. «That infrastructure deficit is not exactly an incentive for companies that want to settle in the province. On the contrary, it is a cap ».
“That Negative impact on the provincial economy is complex to quantify in figures, But it is a reality and directly affects various economic sectors such as, for example, the tourist or logistics». The demand for this third lane adds the need for the unfolding of the National IV, black point that “limits the potential for wealth and employment.”
“There is a government’s commitment so that the third lane arrives in Jerez”
The senator of the Socialist Party, Alfonso Moscosohe says that “the third lane will reach Jerez because this government has stated.” However, he cannot give any date. It goes for long because it is a huge project that only between two sisters and the heads involves 145 million euros that expansion of the third lane. Right now is “under study”, which includes numerous sections: thorough evaluation of environmental, social and economic impacts, as well as the management of expropriations and project planning. «It is not so easy, and giving a date is complicated. But the Government’s commitment is », as Minister Raquel Sánchez will express when presenting the plan.
At this time, The actions carried out in the old AP-4 They are the following: the drafting of the project to remodel the two links (Palacios-Villafranca and El Cuervo), with a cost of 30 million each project; the drafting of the connection with the airport, worth 12 million; and the stretch of the link with the SE-40 and two sisters (other thirty million) has been hired. In turn, the aforementioned award of the project for the third lane of two sisters to the heads, with works valued at 145 million euros.
Moscoso understands the requests and complaints of users and entrepreneurs, but criticizes a Popular Party «who when he is in the opposition claims, but when he is in the government he does not execute. We had to wait for Pedro Sánchez to eliminate the toll and we had to wait for Rodríguez Zapatero to release the Gaditano section. They could have made the unf-4 unfold by the National IV, But the large millionaire investments in Cádiz are executed by socialist governments ».
