The total investment planned in the A-33 is 466 million euros and once it finishes all its route will reduce 46 kilometers between Murcia and Valencia compared to the current by the A-7 motorway
The president of the Community, Fernando López Miras, said today in the act of beginning of the works in the stretch 'Link N-344 - Link A-31' of the highway A-33 Blanca-Fuente la Higuera, which also attended the Minister of Development, Ãñigo de la Serna, that connecting the Region of Murcia with the Valencian Community through the A-33 "will mean more opportunities and territorial, social and economic progress".
"Infrastructures are the arteries through which opportunities flow," said López Miras, who assured that this infrastructure will mean "territorial progress, because more Spain is being united and vertebrating different territories, social progress, because we gain road safety and comfort. for the thousands of Spaniards who are going to circulate through this infrastructure, and economic progress, because it will be a generator of opportunities, employment, wealth, growth and development ".
"We are at a time when politics requires facts and not words," said Lopez Miras, who said that "in the year I've been president of the Murcia Region every word of the Minister of Serna has been accompanied by facts" .
This highway will improve the road communications of the Altiplano with the Valencian Community by the interior for each one of the more than 5,500 vehicles that use it every day, and will increase remarkably the road safety, especially of the thousands of professionals of the road transport sector that circulate along this route dedicated to exporting products from the Region.
One in four drivers who will drive on it will do so in a heavy vehicle.
Freeway A-33
The complete route between Blanca and Fuente la Higuera is 89.1 kilometers long, of which 60 kilometers run entirely through the Region of Murcia.
The total investment planned is 466 million euros.
Its construction is very advanced.
Two thirds of the route are open to traffic.
Currently vehicles can travel 60 kilometers, 65 percent of the total road.
Most of the route open to traffic is in the Region, with 55 kilometers between Blanca and Yecla, while the other 5 kilometers correspond to the Fuente la Higuera variant.
Once all its layout is completed, the route between Murcia and Valencia will be reduced by 46 kilometers compared to the current one by the A-7 motorway.
The route between these two cities will be 212 kilometers, compared to the current route along the coast (258 km).
It will also reduce travel time between Murcia and Valencia by 30 minutes.
Source: CARM