The Ministry of Development has confirmed this Friday that the AP-7 motorway, between Alicante and Tarragona will be free when you finish the current concession, to December 31, 2019. “I tell you with the certainty that tomorrow, 1 December, the first highway of the country which terminates a concession that is not going to be extended going to be the Burgos-Armiñón”, said Javier Izquierdo, general secretary of Infrastructures of the Ministry of Development, after a meeting in Valencia with the minister of Infrastructures of the Generalitat, Jose Maria Salvador.
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the Left has explained that the ministry is already developing the statement of conditions of the contract for the conservation of the 373,8 kilometres away from the motorway that will be released, and that will amount to 16 billion euros per year, of which 12 million correspond to the stretch that passes by the Community of Valencia.
The secretary-general has also pointed out that Jestbet the draft of the new access to the AP-7 Oliva (Valencia) has been modified because it had been designed with a toll. The work will be licitada in 2019 along with another access to the height of Vinaròs-Ulldecona, between Castellón and Tarragona.
The free stretch of the AP-7 is an old claim in the Valencian Community and Catalonia. The highway was inaugurated in 1972. The franco Government granted the exploitation to Aumar for 35 years, but the government of José María Aznar, the PP, was extended until 31 December 2019. The former minister of Development Ana Pastor said five years ago that when the time arrived the road would be free of charge. His successor, Íñigo de la Serna, also of the Popular Party, noted, however, that nothing had been decided.
In June, after the change of Government, the new owner of the Promotion, the socialist José Luis Ábalos, said in an interview with THE COUNTRY in which the AP-7 would be free. But demonstrations later on the need to raise the support of the global network of highways that encouraged diverse interpretations, that Building has settled this Friday.
Less impact in the garden
The councillor of the Generalitat valenciana, María José Salvador, the PSPV-PSOE, has said that the secretary general of Infrastructures has been considered feasible to introduce changes in the extension of the V-21, the main access road to the city of Valencia from the north, for a 30% reduction in the grounds of the garden that are affected, create an exclusive lane for buses and high-occupancy vehicle, and build a walkway over the road connecting the municipality of Alboraia with the core beach Port Saplaya.
