New Airport to Pozo Negro Road

[Captain Sensible]

The long awaited plan for the new road between the airport and Pozo Negro, which will form part of the dual carriageway between Corralejo and Morro Jable has today been approved by the Canarian Government.

I can't imagine that they'll start it before the Caldereta to the aiport section is finished (which will probably take years). I don't think I'll see the airport to Pozo Negro section finished in my lifetime.

When I first saw the plan of the route it went to the west of El Matorral, behind Montaña Blanca in Caleta de Fuste and joined the existing road near Los Alares.

https://noticiasfuerteventura.com/fuerte...ZkCJtY7XaA

A translation:
The president of the Cabildo of Fuerteventura, Blas Acosta, valued as “great news” the unblocking of the work for the Puerto del Rosario-Morro Jable highway in the section of the airport to the crossing of Pozo Negro, started by the Ministry of Public Works of the Canary Islands Government, an action "for which Fuerteventura has been waiting for more than fifteen years," he declared.
The Canary Islands Official Gazette on Friday, May 8, includes the approval of the project update, which is submitted for thirty days, together with the environmental impact study, to the process of public information and consultation of the affected administrations and interested persons.
However, based on Royal Decree 463/2020, of March 14, by which the state of alarm for the management of the health crisis situation caused by COVID-19 was declared in Spain, this 30-day period it will not begin to be computed until the Government of Spain has terminated the state of alarm or, where appropriate, its extensions.
This is a "long-awaited" action for the island of Fuerteventura, declared the island president, a claim that "has finally found sensitivity towards the island that has so often lacked in the past in the Canary Islands Government" and with which “substantially improves the north-south connection axis” by road, an “evident need that until now had not been resolved,” Acosta reported.
Copies in digital format of the project and its corresponding environmental impact study will be available in Fuerteventura for study and allegations at the Cabildo Insular, the City Council of Puerto de Rosario and the City Council of Antigua.

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

I can't imagine that they'll start it before the Caldereta to the aiport section is finished (which will probably take years). I don't think I'll see the airport to Pozo Negro section finished in my lifetime.

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[Emmi Smith]

Is this proposed road really needed?

[TrickyFox]

Is this proposed road really needed?

Yes, have you seen the build up of traffic in the Caleta area in the last few years?

[Captain Sensible]

The Fuerteventura Cabildo have sent the Environmental Impact Report to the Canarian Government - https://noticiasfuerteventura.com/fuerte...7WNlj-HhKk

[Captain Sensible]

THe Environmental Impact Report has been completed and authority has been given for the road to go ahead. The licence is valid for 4 years. The new road won't start into the Caldereta-Airport section is operational. It will cost 150 million euros.
https://www.diariodefuerteventura.com/no...gL_w6N4PTA

[windermeregolfer]

I enquired from a friend yesterday about the route of this new motorway and he sent a link to an image - 

   

In the article Sam published it talked about a False Tunnel and that could be the section marked with arrows on the map?

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

Radio Sintonia:

1.3 million euros for the drafting of the Airport-Pozo Negro road project.

The Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Housing of the Government of the Canary Islands, directed by Sebastián Franquis, has today put out to tender the contract for the drafting of the construction project of the new section of the North-South Axis of Fuerteventura that goes from the Airport of the island to the crossing of Pozo Negro, in the municipality of Antigua. With an investment of 1,132,862 euros for this tender, the Ministry promotes continuity for the total execution of the North-South Axis of roads on the island after granting last March the Ministry of Ecological Transition, Fight against Climate Change and Territorial Planning, the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) favorable to this new section.

 

With this tender, Public Works prepares the contracting of works valued at just over 150 million euros to create continue expanding the highway that makes up the North-South Axis of Fuerteventura, in this case, a section of 18 kilometers that goes from the Airport of the island to the crossing of Pozo Negro, in the municipality of Antigua.

The project of this new section will allow to continue the trace of the North-South Axis of Fuerteventura in a southerly direction once the Corralejo-Caldereta section has been completed and opened and the Caldereta-Airport section is being executed. Therefore, this section between the Airport and Pozo Negro, whose execution of works is estimated to be around 150 million euros, would be the continuation of the road that is currently being executed by the Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Housing next to Puerto del Rosario.

This new stretch of highway will have a route of 18.1 kilometers in length and will have four links, the airport, the El Castillo Link, the Las Salinas Link and the Antigua Link. The new road makes the same route as the current FV-2, but with fewer kilometers, with a double road with four lanes that will allow to circulate at 120 kilometers per hour and, above all, with a more respectful route with the environment of the environment.
Precisely in order to preserve the natural habitat of the fauna that frequents the area of the Barranco del Valle del Mirador, the execution of a tunnel of 1.3 kilometers has been included in the project of this work so as not to cut with the trace of the road the passage of the wild birds that nest in the area.

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

Noticias:

Torres announces the next tender for the work of the Airport-Pozo Negro highway.

The meeting that the President of the Government, and Secretary General of the PSOE, Ángel Victor Torres held with business representatives of the island at the Corralejo Bay de Barceló hotel in the northern town, left several headlines related to the infrastructures demanded by the island.

 

At the business meeting, Torres was accompanied by the Secretary of Organization of the Socialists, Nira Fierro, the Deputy Secretary General Rosa Bella Cabrera and the Deputy Secretary Spokesperson Elena Máñez, as well as the insular General Secretary Blas Acosta and other positions of the Socialist Party of Fuerteventura.

 
The president of the government advanced, to questions from the president of the Chamber, Juan Jesus Rodríguez, the involvement with the port infrastructure of the Corralejo dock, while endorsing the business demands of recovering maritime connectivity with the African continent, with the line from Fuerteventura to Tarfaya, for this he explained how "relations between Spain and Morocco have been normalized", which in his opinion is a value to recover the line.
In that sense, he announced that he will make an official trip to the Alawite kingdom, "as is tradition in the Governments of the Canary Islands" and will try to confirm the reality of the creation of the line.

 

North-South Axis

 

But the big headline of the afternoon was the announcement of the next tender for the work of the Airport-Pozo Negro section of the north south axis of Fuerteventura. This new stretch of highway will have a route of 18.1 kilometers in length and will have four links, the airport, the El Castillo Link, the Las Salinas Link and the Antigua Link.

 

"The new road makes the same route as the current FV-2, but with fewer kilometers, with a double road with four lanes that will allow to circulate at 120 kilometers per hour and, above all, with a more respectful route with the environment of the environment," said Sebastían Fránquiz in a press release a few weeks ago.

 

With this tender, Public Works will begin works "valued at just over 150 million euros to continue expanding the highway that makes up the North-South Axis of Fuerteventura".

 

This announcement is directly linked to the announcement two weeks ago with "the final resolution of the Road Agreement between the State and the islands", where Torres stressed that the unblocking of the Agreement "will allow the Canary Islands to have 238 million in the regional budget of 2023, as well as another 407 that will be part of the reform program and new road infrastructures".

 
In this sense, the regional president explained to the businessmen that "a lot of work" has joined, with the unblocking of the funds plus the environmental unblocking, which was one of the great burdens of this infrastructure. The government said a month ago that in order to preserve the natural habitat of the fauna that frequents the area of the Barranco del Valle del Mirador, the execution of a tunnel of 1.3 kilometers has been included in the project of this work so as not to cut with the trace of the road the passage of wild birds that nest in the area".