Caldereta to Airport New Road

[windermeregolfer]

By way of comparison, the first phase of HS2 is 120 miles and the (current) estimate is £17,500 million (£17.5bn) which works out at (I think) about £140 million a mile.

So 7.87 million € per Km (£10/mile) seems like a bargain to me.

Can't find a map of the new route but I think it is a fairly blank canvas with possibly not a lot of compulsory purchase, tunnels or bridges.

[Spitfire58]

This is a bit out of date (6years) so possibly double these costs for today’s costing but, I would have thought that with the general ground surface conditions on Fuerte it would require less work to create a road base.

Motorway
M74 (extension
Actual cost = £692,000,000
Length (km) = 8
Cost/km = £86,500k

A-road (dual)
Aberdeen western peripheral route (estimated)
Actual cost = £395,000,000
Length (km) = 29
Cost/km = £13,621k

A-road (single)
Average based on costs of A737, A75 and A82 bypasses;
Actual cost = £58,000,000
Length (km) = 8.57
Cost/km = £6800k
I know nothing about building roads, but assume if you had to move a lot of earth to build cuttings / embankments or had bridges to build, then the cost goes up exponentially.
The A82 Crianlarich bypass is 770m of single carriageway and comes in about £5,700k per km.

So maybe not so far off. Surprising how costs escalate.

[windermeregolfer]

I must getting old , there may also be others on here who remember the rule of thumb that it cost £1 million per mile of motorway when the original  M1 & M6 were built  so when you take inflation, increases in H&S and environmental issues into account the 7.87 million € per Km isn't that bad.

[Captain Sensible]

The road has gone out for tender. The cost has increased to 117 million €, and it'll take 54 months to complete (I bet it will take more )

A translation from the press release:

The Ministry of Public Works, Transportation and Housing of the Government of the Canary Islands, which directs Sebastián Franquis, today has put out to tender the contracting of the work of the Puerto del Rosario-La Caldereta highway, with the corresponding variants on the FV-1 roads, FV-2 and FV-3 for an amount of 117,856,177 euros and with a maximum date to submit offers until next February 3. This tender gives an answer to the agreements negotiated with the Cabildo de Fuerteventura to prioritize the road infrastructure works necessary to close the so-called North-South Axis that vertebrates the island.

The works will have an execution period of 54 months, once the project is awarded and the staking act is signed with the company that is awarded. The projected route is located within the second section of the Insular Axis of Fuerteventura, in a north-south direction, which connects the La Caldereta-Corralejo section, recently put into service, with the airport. The route includes a 17-kilometer highway, with separate lanes of two lanes in each direction, 2.5-meter outer shoulders, and one-meter interior roads, and five links along the road.

This route connects the link between La Caldereta and Corralejo, so the connection between the north of Fuerteventura and the airport of the island will be defined by a fast lane of four lanes when the work is finished. In addition, thanks to this variant, it will be possible to double the capacity of the ring road to Puerto del Rosario or FV-3, which contributes to significantly reduce the accident rate on the interurban roads of that island, to increase the flow of traffic and reduce the acoustic incidence in the environment.

After modifying the project to include the 17 conditions for the approval of the environmental impact statement, the archaeological site of the Tinojay Ravine will be respected, in addition to moving away from the hubaras sighting areas and the existing route in the ring road will be used to the maximum to Puerto del Rosario (FV-3), without affecting the population growth of the surrounding urban areas, thus adapting to the forecasts of the Island Management Plan of the island (PIOF).

These works will have the quality control and surveillance works, so the complementary security and control contract for an amount of 3,818,110 euros, in five annuities, that will allow the control of the execution, has been put out to tender Monthly measurement of the work executed and the guarantee of compliance with the conditions of the health and safety plan. This complementary contract will have a validity coinciding with the works, of 54 months, to which two months will be added to carry out activities in the previous phase and two months for the final certification and liquidation phase.

[Si Tie]

Windermeregolfer I remember the 1 million a mile thing (think my grandad told me ha!).  Some of these quotes
are so different its hard to compare.  Labour expenses in London are going to be high.  Also 
I think the figures might include compulsory purchases of property and land needed to expand.
On top of that bridges for railways and roads etc.  So can easily see the difference in expanding a road in
a built up area like Lodon compared to Fuerteventura.  Still seems expensive for Fuerteventura

[Pho]

The tender is for 17km, which will take it to the airport. The route takes it to the Rosario bypass near Mercadona, then follows the bypass to near its junction with the FV2. This section of the bypass will be dualled.

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

OK, starting a book on the actual opening date. 54 months construction plus 2 months before and after for various bits equals 58 months, just short of 5 years!
So, guess how long before it gets through the next stage and work actually starts, add on the nearly five years and some Fuerte time ………...

I'm going for an opening date of 5th Feb 2027. And I think I'm being generous 

[Pho]

2030, and that would be quicker than the first section, which I think took 13 years

[beachlife]

Wonder why they don`t seem to put penalty clauses on contracts here if the completion date is not met. So many works on the island seem to overrun. 

Could it be if there were penalties the companies might raise the price to match the actual date as they would have to throw more people on the job to achieve the completion date? As they can overrun the completion date they can finish the work with lower costs as they don`t seem too concerned about completion dates here.

[Spitfire58]

Is it just not down to the generally accepted manana here. It takes as long as it takes ?