The A-44 may have eliminated (almost) the traffic jams reaching the coast from Granada, but it has only moved the problem from the autovía to the N-340.

Hardly a day went by during July and August without a tailback stretching from the A-44/N-430 junction to the entrance junction for Salobreña because all that 2-lane traffic coming off the autovia is squeezed into just one lane (the access ramp) onto the N-340.

But that’s half the problem because when you do eventually reach the Salobreña turn off bringing you down to the roundabout next to the bus station, it’s jammed solid again with everybody trying to get into Salobreña through this one junction, instead of carrying on a little bit and coming in off the second junction. OK, this only makes getting in the town easier but you’re still faced with the main roundabout next to the Tourist Information Office.

Clearly, what is needed, is a slip road, once over the river, down onto the vega that runs parallel with the N-340, until you arrive at the sports complex El Trance, then turn under the main road and onto Avenida de Motril in front of the Mediterraneo High School.

There already exists another way into Salobreña and that is, when you get to the A-44/N340 junction, go under the flyover and take the N-323a that takes you directly to the golf course, but long before, there is a turning right near a greenhouse, but it’s an unmetalled (no hard surface; i.e. gravel or dirt) single-lane, track, but it takes you right to the bridge over Río Guadalfeo near its river mouth. If this track were widened and tarmacked, then that would mean that you don’t even have to get onto the N-340 at all.

(News/Noticias: Salobrena, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)