Chiclana business community calls on the Junta for the Los Barrancos and Ronda Oeste roads

Chiclana's businesses have once again asked the Junta de Andalucía to carry out the Los Barrancos road and the Ronda Oeste. They did so at a meeting with the mayor, José María Román, and the deputy mayors Ana González, Mª Ángeles Martínez Rico and José Vera, held at the Venta Los Cazadores, according to the Ayuntamiento. The city's business sector has expressed its concern about the Junta's lack of response on these two infrastructure projects and about their not appearing in the regional budget, which is being processed these days. The Ronda Oeste is a regional government responsibility and would help relieve congestion in the Urbisur industrial estate and at the entrance to Chiclana. The Los Barrancos road is a commitment by the Junta which, in the business community's view, would improve the competitiveness of local companies. The meeting also addressed concern about the failure to activate the Miralrío industrial estate, whose land belongs to the Junta, given the lack of industrial land in the municipality.

The transformation of the Los Barrancos road was a commitment the Junta made in connection with the works on the Bahía de Cádiz tram as it passes through the city centre, alongside other projects such as the Ronda Metropolitana Oeste and the La Concordia bridge, the latter already built and which connects El Pilar with the Medina road. On the Los Barrancos road, the only work carried out by the Junta has been the resurfacing of the existing road, without widening lanes or adding pavements, a bike lane or the bridge over the river Iro, which remains closed to traffic when the flow rises due to heavy rain. This road, to the east of the town centre, is used daily by numerous private vehicles belonging to residents of the area, as well as by lorries, vans and tractors. It connects the Marquesado road and the entrance to Chiclana via the Venta Agustín with the Medina road and the Pelagatos industrial estate through the El Palmar road. The mayor recalled that «we are talking about a claim for justice for Chiclana, a city that over the last 20 years has grown by more than 20,000 inhabitants». Román added that «it is 8 years of señor Moreno Bonilla at the head of the Junta de Andalucía and it is no longer time to blame the previous regional government». If in the end there is no budget allocation for these two roads, the businesspeople have expressed their willingness to carry out possible actions «so that the Junta listens to us and addresses our claims, which are fair for the city of Chiclana».