The Pamplona-Estella-Logroño motorway Monday, October 17, 2005

Close to 13,000 vehicles travel daily along the Pamplona-Estella-Logroño route. This is one of Navarre’s strategic communication axes that runs along the N-111, a road on which significant work has been done over the last few years but which is clearly insufficient to absorb existing traffic and the increase in traffic which is expected in years to come. Thus, the construction of the Pamplona-Estella-Logroño motorway constitutes one of the priority objectives of the Department of Public Works, Transport and Communications.

View of one of the sections of the motorway that are already in operation.(Enlarge image)

The new infrastructure will provide a fast, direct connection with La Rioja and the north of the Ebro Valley, one of the areas with greatest development potential in the Iberian Peninsula, while improving communications between key towns such as Estella, Puente la Reina and Los Arcos and Pamplona.

It will also help develop the Estella District, which enjoys an excellent geographical situation and resources but which has been experiencing a certain stagnation for some time. The motorway’s integration in the area has been given priority and there are 19 junctions, while 16 roads have been modified to access the motorway, thereby guaranteeing its accessibility throughout the area.

Environmental aspects have been emphasised and so has the route’s cultural value, as the Pilgrims’ Way to Santiago runs close to it. This route will be subjected to a specific recovery plan.

The motorway is 71 kilometres long and represents and investment of 300 million euros. Currently, the section from Pamplona to Los Arcos is in service and the last section will be inaugurated in September 2006.

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