There is more traffic than usual during the summer season, a busy dirt road that is now carrying far more traffic than is usual following the closure of Avda La Luz by residents of Montezenia urbanisation.
Avda de la Luz was closed due to the alarming lack of basic services provided by the City Council in that Urbanisation in recent years, together with their failure in committing to any improvements.
The closure has resulted in many hundreds of vehicles using this valley road as an alternative, connecting them with the area around the Overseas supermarket in the west and Los Dolses/La Zenia in the east of Orihuela Costa.
Recently, Antonio Cerdán, former coordinator of the Orihuela Costa district Pedáneos and leader of CLARO, met with the Councilor of Urban Planning Matías Ruiz to whom he put a proposal that would consist of “joining Calle Ciprés with Avda Montezenia-la Solana, across a section of about 250 metres of a valley dirt road, where there is a pumping station, as well as electricity, water and sanitation conduits.”
This valley transports many hundreds of cars, vans and motorcycles on a daily basis, despite it’s poor condition, as it facilitates quick access to the area around Zenia Boulevard and the Town Hall, saving about five kilometres of travel, avoiding alternative routes or the N-332.
This initiative, presented by CLARO, “is well known since we were working on it eleven years ago, when we held the councillorship of the Coast. This suggested solution, which we believe would substantially improve traffic in the area, is a proposal that we included, like several others, in the electoral programme of the PP, as a result of the support agreement that CLARO signed before the municipal elections of 2023,” they say.
