The regional government defends that «both alternatives were viable» and considers it «a contradiction that they use article 15 to argue the non-execution of either.»
April 15, 2025
Castilla y León |
Department of Mobility and Digital Transformation
The Castilla y León Government is considering filing an optional appeal for reinstatement with the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility regarding the Spanish Government’s decision not to connect Ávila with the Northwest Highway (A-6) through a 25-kilometer stretch of highway from the capital to Adanero. A resolution, dated March 27, 2025, was published in the Official State Gazette this past Monday.
Legal technicians from the regional government believe that the Government is using Article 15 of Law 37/2015, of September 29, on Roads, as an excuse, which requires that informative studies include a cost-benefit analysis to reject the implementation of this connection. «It is a contradiction that they use this Article 15 to argue the non-execution of either of the two alternatives included in the informative study, both of which were functionally viable,» emphasizes the Minister of Mobility and Digital Transformation, José Luis Sanz Merino.
The minister asserts that «this is a political decision that significantly harms the interests of the Community, especially the citizens of the province of Ávila,» and urges the central government to «reject conducting a new informative study that would lead to unmanageable deadlines and work on developing one of the two alternatives.»