After a process that has lasted almost fifteen months, the Department of Climate Action has already approved the environmental impact report to be able to execute the conditioning project for the so-called Carretera de la Vergüenza, the T-2021, between La Ràpita and Poblenou del Delta.
With the simplified environmental evaluation process cleared, the Tarragona Provincial Council must now incorporate the conditions imposed by the Generalitat in the project draft and definitively approve it.
The Provincial Council maintains its forecast of providing a budget for the work to begin it next year. This has been claimed by the Highway of Shame platform.
The mayor of Amposta, Adam Tomàs, has celebrated the approval and is confident that the Council will fulfill its commitments.
Scene of numerous accidents, some fatal, full of narrow sections where it is difficult for two vehicles to cross each other and with a regular presence of bicycles, the improvement of the baptized road of shame has become a historic demand of the residents of the center. from Poblenou del Delta.
Not only is it the main road that, bordering irrigation ditches and rice fields, connects them to neighboring towns and major communication routes, but it is one of the gateways for tourism in the Ebro delta, as they remember.
Once the provincial body fully assumed ownership of the road by including it in its zonal plan of the local road network, the draft project had to pass through the sieve of the Department of Climate Action.
According to the Generalitat, the fact that the work does not have “significant adverse effects on the environment” of the Delta has finally avoided the processing of an ordinary environmental impact assessment, much more complex than the procedure finally adopted and which, despite This has lasted practically fifteen months.
“We demand that once and for all the promises that have been made be fulfilled and the 2025 budgets contain the necessary amount to carry out the work,” claimed the spokesman for the Highway of Shame platform, Josep Juan.
Despite recognizing the slowness in resolving this procedure, the mayor of Amposta, Adam Tomàs, believes that the Provincial Council will meet the deadlines recently announced by its president, Noemí Llauradó, of starting the actions in next 2025 once it has been possible to include this year the work in the four-year investment program and in next year’s budgets.
Signed on May 2 by the general director of Environmental Policies and Natural Environment, Marc Vilahür, the environmental impact report for the project presented by the provincial entity is favorable, but with conditions. One of the most notable, already included in the non-motorized mobility and acoustic impact studies included in the construction project, will be the reduction from 60 to 50 kilometers per hour, the reduction of the maximum speed of the section to reduce the risk of accidents, energy consumption and emissions”.
