The Ministerio de Transportes has put up for bidding a contract to build a roundabout on the western-most entrance to Motril on the N-340.
The construction contract has a budget for 475,506 euros but interested companies will put in bids for less, hoping to net the contract.
With summer in full swing, the existing T-junction has cars queueing up in the central, waiting lane in order for a break in the oncoming traffic to dart across.
The other entrances into Motril from the N-340 (the port one and Kilometre Uno) are both roundabout junctions so this junction will be the last one to be converted into this more efficient configuration.
Editorial comment: interestingly, the western access back in 1981 was the only one as the N-340 went right through the middle of Motril before reappearing again on the Carretera de Almería (Vadillo Industria Estate). The town was so congested in the summer, as you can imagine, but finally they built a new section of straight, raised road from this western end (thus creating the present T-junction) all the way to the eastern entrance on the Carretera Almería, transferring to it the name N-340.
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There should be more roundabouts along the N-340 to allow for more convenient exiting and entering and changing directions than having to find the next cambio de sentido. From my house in upper Cotobro, to go to La Herradura or points along the way, I have to descend all the way to the traffic light in front of the guardia civil before I can head west. A roundabout at the Cotobro exit would make travel more rational and convenient for many people as well as serve to calm traffic on a particularly dangerous stretch of the N-340.
I wonder if it will be built any quicker. Then the connecting road. Being constructed between the police/passport offices and the petrol stations on the industrial estate.
If the went any slower. They would go backwards.