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The mayor of the Murcia town of Águilas, Mari Carmen Moreno, has once again demanded that the Dirección General de Carreteras (Directorate General of Roads) urgently fix the Águilas-Calabardina road (RM-D15), as it passes through the district as the road surface is in “very poor condition”.

 

In this regard, the mayor has pointed out that “it has been more than three years since we have started requesting this work due to the danger posed by the state of the road for vehicles travelling on it”.

 

The RM-D15 road, which runs from around the Cala del Pino beach, through the outlying Águilas district of Calabardina and up to the Playa del Rafal beach before rejoining the main RM-D14 artery, is not in the best of shape. While it is a lovely drive along the seafront of southern Murcia, the road itself has several cracks and potholes, which it is the responsibility of the Directorate General of Roads to fix and maintain.

 

 

Mayor Moreno continued, “This year the Autonomous Community [of Murcia] had budgeted for this work, but with half a month to go before the end of the year it has still not been carried out and there is no intention of doing so, as in the 2024 budget this item does not appear anywhere.”

 

For all these reasons, Mayor Moreno went on to say said that “last Wednesday I contacted the director general, to whom I conveyed my concern about the fact that the 2024 budget does not include any budget line for this vitally important action.”

 

On this matter, the mayor of Águilas has indicated that “there are only two alternatives: either that they, as the ones who are responsible for [the road], fix and maintain it; or that they proceed to sign an agreement in which only the stretch, of just under a kilometre and a half, which runs through the town centre of the district [of Águilas] is ceded, together with the amount necessary for its repair, and that from that moment on it is the Town Hall which is responsible for its maintenance.”

 

The implication is that, if this stretch of road were in the hands of Águilas Town Hall, it would receive the repairs it needs immediately.

 

 

 

Image: Ayuntamiento de Águilas