Spain's traffic authorities install cameras and registration number readers on the Malaga outer ring road

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The DGT warns of the overload on the 'hiperronda' that the north access to the airport will cause once completed

Chus Heredia

Spain's traffic authority (DGT) has launched a public tender to address the increasing traffic on the A-7 outer ring road (hiperronda) that circles Malaga city and its surrounding towns.

The DGT says that the construction of the northern access to Malaga Airport, which has been delayed for almost two decades, will place a significant strain on the ring road.

"The A-7 motorway, as it passes through the Malaga wider area and particularly the section between the junction with the A-357 and its junction with the AP-7 in the municipality of Torremolinos, is one of the busiest roads in the province.

Its role as a structuring axis of the coastline and as the main access route to urban centres, industrial areas, logistics centres and, soon, to the new northern access to Malaga Airport, makes it a strategic infrastructure in terms of traffic, connectivity and economic development," the technical specifications of the tender state.

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• • an airport that already handles over 26 million visitors annually and requires viable alternatives.

    The decision to restart the project stemmed from another road project fiasco: the western distributor road, designed for heavy goods vehicles between the freight transport centre (CTM) and Churriana. The economic crisis ultimately derailed this project.

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