Orihuela Council pledges pedestrian bridge over the AP-7 by April 2023
AVOCA, the Orihuela Costa residents association (www.facebook.com/avocaorihuelacosta) has confirmed that it has received an absolute promise from the Orihuela Council that it will finally meet it’s 16-year promise, to erect a pedestrian walkway across the AP-7 motorway, between La regia and Lomas de Cabo Roig.
After 16 years of paralysis, during which time neither the developer nor the municipal council have made any real efforts to complete the work, the Oriolano consistory now wants to restart the project.
Pedestrians and cyclists who currently walk or ride between the two locations have barely half a metre at the side of the busy CV-942 road and often have to stop and step up onto an uneven embankment in order to avoid traffic. Indeed, vehicles can often be seen swerving into the centre of the two-lane highway, as they endeavour to avoid the pedestrians and cyclists.