Estación de San Roque by-pass opened yesterday

(Agencies / Photo: EuropaSur) The new by-pass road that leads from Miraflores up behind Estación de San Roque toward Castellar, Jimena, Gaucín and Ronda was opened officially yesterday by the Junta's Councillor for Publc Works, Rosa Aguilar. It connects the A-7 coast road with the A-405 without having to traverse Taraguilla or Estación de San Roque and the railway crossing there; and will allow better connections for Section 2 of the Zona de Actividades Logísticas (ZAL) presently under construction. Present at the inauguration, too, were a number of political and business personalities of the Campo de Gibraltar.(See map below)>

At a cost of €14.2 million co-financed by EU funds, construction was carried out with careful attention to local environment, including transplanting several hundred cork oaks, as well as two roundabouts, slow traffic lanes in either direction and a footbridge over the A-405. A 280m viaduct over the Algeciras-Bobadilla railway line avoids the need for crossing the tracks, which will be a relief to the thousands of daily travellers to and from the coast road, who have so often been held up by trains or lorries.

The by-pass was designed to connect with the future regional  ring road that duplicates the A-7 and passes close to the Guadarranque ZAL (image with thanks to Yvonne Heinzl).