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The extension of the C-32 motorway (dis) joins the Costa Brava

The non-binding popular consultation held in 2016 in the towns of Blanes and Lloret de Mar (Girona) on the extension of the C-32 motorway between the two municipalities had a clear result. However, the non-emerging from the polls and which meant the union of citizenship of the two populations has not been transferred to their current political representatives, who have recently shown their division in terms of the layout of the controversial infrastructure.

“The project is justified by the need to improve communications with Lloret, especially because of the collapse that arises in times of maximum summer influx”, said this week the mayor of the municipality, Jaume Dulsat (JxCat), who has positioned himself in favor of two of the four proposals made by the Department of Territory in its third project to try to lengthen the fast track.

“We endorse proposals 1 and 2, which have the least environmental impact and reduce travel time at the same time”, Dulsat has thus realized giving its approval to the two options preferred by the Generalitat, which in fact refer to those already raised by the Catalan Government in 2000 and 2015 but with some improvements in the layout.

Modifications such as the reduction of two lanes to one in certain sections or the incorporation of a new branch that, however, have not convinced the Town Hall of Blanes (ERC-Blanes and En Comú Podem), which on 17 October re-covered the “great environmental and landscape impact” that the layouts proposed by the Govern and endorsed by Lloret, continue to cause “in the hills and the Sanctuary of the Vilar , as well as in the place of the Three Turons, considered of high natural, cultural and historical value”.

“The proposals for further design of the extension of the motorway represent a reiteration of the road layout and structure that was already rejected in the popular consultation of 2016”, said the Town Hall of Blanes, which in turn stood in favour of the fourth proposal included in the last project presented by Territory – and also defended by environmentalists- , which proposes unfolding the current road between the two towns with the addition of a north round of ring road to prevent traffic from passing through the city.

“We consider this alternative to be best suited to improve vehicle traffic between municipalities without causing environmental and landscape impacts,” said the Consistory.

“The Town Hall of Blanes has always defended the preservation of its natural heritage above partisan interests, which appears to be the case in the City Council of Lloret that is governed by Junts per Catalunya, the party of the current Councillor of Territory [Damia Calvet], who has promoted the different projects of the extension even though they have been suspended twice by the High Court of Justice of Catalonia [in 2017 and in 2019] later to consider, and after resources presented by our platform, that the environmental impact studies presented by Calvet did not conform to the Climate Change Act developed by the Generalitat itself”, concludes the spokesperson of the environmental platform Aturem la C-32, Joan Mora.

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