Por Redaccion The Minister of Mobility and Digital Transformation has announced today, during an event in Ávila, the submission of a preliminary requirement to the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility to reconsider the decision to connect Ávila to the A-6 motorway towards Madrid. As he has pointed out, the Government has commissioned a study for the improvement of the N-403, which implies giving up the conversion of this road into another high-capacity one.
July 4, 2025
Castilla y León |
Ministry of Mobility and Digital Transformation
The Castilla y León Regional Government has submitted a preliminary requirement to the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility so that it does not abandon the A-40 Motorway project and fulfills its commitment to connect Ávila with the A-6.
«The Government’s decision to close the file without approving any alternative means, once again, leaving Ávila behind,» lamented the Minister of Mobility and Digital Transformation, José Luis Sanz Merino. The Ministry has, this same week, commissioned a viability study for the improvement of the N-403, which implies giving up the conversion of this road into a motorway.
The regional government denounces that this decision «halts a key infrastructure for the development of the province, ignoring a territory that already suffers from a serious deficit in terms of transportation and infrastructure,» as pointed out by Sanz Merino.
At the same time, the minister has urged the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility to evaluate any of the options proposed in the study. In this regard, the Regional Government requests a two-year extension in the deadlines for the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) so that this process does not expire and the progress made is not lost.
As Sanz Merino has recalled, the State Infrastructure Plan approved in 2012 (PITVI 2012-2024) identified the A-40 as a strategic corridor. Thus, a dual-capacity road would improve the connection of Ávila with the rest of Castilla y León and the north of Spain.
The Minister of Mobility and Digital Transformation has argued that Ávila needs an effort in terms of infrastructure and railway services with Madrid or the extension of the Ávila-Madrid corridor to Arévalo. He has also lamented that the new transportation map «would leave 86 towns in the province without a bus stop.»
Finally, Sanz Merino has emphasized that this demand has been supported in the Castilla y León Regional Parliament, in the Congress, in the Senate, and by institutional representatives of the province. «The Castilla y León Regional Government will not look the other way. It will continue to demand what is right for Ávila: a motorway that connects, that integrates the territory, that generates opportunities and that does not leave anyone behind,» he concluded.