Something, at last, is happening along this long-delayed, problem-beset stretch of the A-7, even if it only involves paperwork.

The Sub-Delegate for the Government, Antonio Cruz, visited the site on the day of the completion of the boring work on one of the tunnels – there’s daylight at the end of the tunnel, and never better said. Sr Cruz announced that the contract for the Gorgoracha-Puntalon stretch will be adjudicated by the end of next month (October 2011).

Sr Cruz claims that all the autovia between Malaga and Carchuna will be put into use by the end of 2012, just in time for the destruction of the Planet Earth, according to the Mayan calendar.

As for the A-7 between Carchuna-Castell and Polopos-Albuñol, he didn’t want to venture a guess, bless him. Sr. Cruz reiterated that they have tried to give priority to the Port of Motril.

Anyway, the tunnel that has finally been completely bored – like the citizens on the Costa Tropical waiting for the said autovia – in the Minilla, which is the one between Taramay and Lobres, two months after the first one reached the same stage.

This advance in the construction work means that the link between Almuñécar (Almunecar) and Lobres is 45% concluded. Bear in mind that a lot of work on the tunnels remains, until they are ready for traffic: the five connecting passages between the tunnels, for example. The stretch still needs a lot of work on the two motorway bridges; one 600-metres long and the other 700.

So, the question is, can drivers expect to be able to connect with the A-44 (Granada-Costa) autovia by the time that next summer begins, or more to the point, before the N-340 slides into the sea? Which it is threatening to do in front of Urb Alfa-Mar.

(News: A-7, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)