New asphalt for the A-334 through El Hijate, in Alcóntar: the Junta invests €120,000
The Junta de Andalucía is investing €120,000 to renew 670 metres of the A-334 road surface on the stretch through El Hijate (Alcóntar), with a four-day works period.
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The Andalusian regional government (Junta de Andalucía) is renewing the surface of the A-334 where it passes through El Hijate, in Alcóntar. The works are rehabilitating 670 metres of paving on the stretch through this village, with an investment of €120,000 and a completion period of four days, according to the Territorial Delegation for Development and Mobility in Almería.
The territorial delegate, Dolores Martínez, this Thursday visited the works, which are concentrated between kilometre points 23+000 and 23+670. And it is no ordinary stretch: El Hijate is the first village in Almería province that the A-334 passes through on its route from Granada, and the surface of its through-road was showing structural fatigue, with deformation and marked surface wear caused by the combination of heavy goods vehicle traffic and the urban character of the stretch.
Milling and 1,000 tonnes of asphalt
The works, already under way, consist of milling the wearing course and paving the entire carriageway with 1,000 tonnes of hot-mix asphalt concrete, with a compacted thickness of five centimetres, as well as reinstating the road markings. While the works last, traffic is being controlled with alternating one-way flow and traffic control staff, something to bear in mind if you are driving in the area.
The project is part of the Junta’s Extraordinary Resurfacing Plan, with a budget of €151.5 million to renew some 1,000 kilometres of roads in Andalusia, of which €17.5 million goes to the province of Almería. Around the Valley, the plan also includes the A-1178 between Bacares, Gérgal and Olula del Río, as detailed at its presentation last July.
A key road for the Almanzora
Martínez stressed that “the A-334 plays a fundamental role in the communications of the Almanzora Valley” and that keeping it in good condition is essential for daily journeys and for the district’s economic activity. The road, part of the regional Basic Articulation Network, starts from the A-92N, skirts Baza and Caniles and runs through the Almanzora until it links up with the Autovía del Mediterráneo (A-7).
For the residents of El Hijate, who live with lorries regularly passing along their through-road, the improvement means a road surface in better condition right in the built-up stretch; for the rest of the Valley, it means one more project on its main communications route.
