The Provincial Council is finishing the widening of the Albox–Oria road: seven metres wide, with hard shoulders
The AL-8101, which links San Roque (Albox) with the A-399 in Oria, gains two metres in width over 1.2 kilometres and gets new hard shoulders, with €200,000 from the Provincial Council.
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The road linking the Albox outlying district of San Roque with the A-399, at Oria, is entering the final stretch. Almería Provincial Council is finishing off the improvement of the AL-8101, a €200,000 project under the Provincial Road Network Plan 2024-2025. After the widening and the repair of the road platform, the works have now reached the painting of the road markings.
The provincial councillor for Public Works, Antonio J. Rodríguez, and the mayor of Albox, María del Mar Alfonso, have visited the works, as La Voz de Almería and Noticias de Almería reported on Sunday.
What changes on the AL-8101
- Two more metres of width: between kilometre points 10+800 and 12+000, a stretch of 1.2 kilometres, the carriageway goes from five to seven metres.
- Lanes and hard shoulders: two three-metre lanes and a half-metre hard shoulder on each side.
- New road surface: an eight-metre-wide base of crushed aggregate and a five-centimetre wearing course of hot-mix asphalt.
- New paint: the road markings are being renewed along 4.9 kilometres, from kilometre point 10+800 to 15+700.
The improvement reaches residents of hamlets such as Llano del Espino and Rambla de Oria. With the works, the mayor stressed, “accessibility and safety are improved for many residents who live in hamlets such as Llano del Espino”, according to La Voz de Almería. Alfonso also hopes to keep working with the Provincial Council so that this improvement continues.
A project that goes back a long way
The Provincial Council presented this project in September 2025, with the same budget, and explained at the time that it was finishing the rehabilitation of the full length of the AL-8101, some 15 kilometres. Its Governing Board awarded the contract for the works on this road between Oria and Albox in July 2026, as the provincial institution reported in August.
The widening is part of a plan of 23 projects on provincial roads, with €5.5 million for 2024 and 2025, according to the Provincial Council. When the painting is finished, anyone travelling between San Roque and the A-399 will find a wider carriageway with hard shoulders on that stretch.
