The project to connect the A-27 and the AP-2 highway in Montblanc has already been drawn up and the work can be put out to tender “in the coming months.”
As explained by the subdelegate of the Spanish government in Tarragona, Santiago Castellà, the tunnel and the new section of the A-27 highway “was a very complex work”, but the route to the AP-2 “is very logical” and the execution of the work “may be agile enough”, once awarded.
The works could begin within a year and a half and its execution would last a year and a half more.
The new Coll de Lilla tunnel on the A-27 receives more than 11,000 vehicles a day on average since it came into operation a month ago, 10% of these vehicles are trucks, although those carrying dangerous goods must circulate on the N- 240 or the AP-2.
The new five-kilometer route of the A-27, which connects Valls and Montblanc and includes the tunnel that crosses the Lilla pass, began to be executed in 2008.
After many years of delay and a cost of 157 million euros, the section was launched on October 23 and has a daily traffic of about 11,000 vehicles.
The volume of circulation “demonstrates that it was a very necessary route”, as recognized by the Spanish subdelegate in Tarragona, for the mobility of people and goods between Lleida, Zaragoza, Navarra and the entire northern Iberian Peninsula to Tarragona, especially with the Port where it also The implementation of the infrastructure has been noted with a growth in vehicle entries and exits.
Castellà has highlighted “the many possibilities” that the route for Conca de Barberà represents, to attract new industry with the attraction of “logistics and product transformation.”
Regarding the complaints from the residents of Lilla, the subdelegate assured that State Highways “is studying all the requirements” that have been sent to them, evaluating “the improvement of access to the town” and also the possibility of installing screens that reduce the noise impact of traffic.
