The provincial president of the PP, Ramón Celma, argued that “it is tremendously urgent and necessary for the Spanish Government to move forward with the N-330 roundabout at Avenida del Rosario”. In his view, Cuarte needs a connection suited to a municipality with more than 16,000 residents and 17 industrial estates hosting over 1,500 companies.
The demand has also reached the Congress of Deputies. Popular Party lawmakers Luis María Beamonte, Raúl Cuevas and María Elena Bondía have submitted several questions to the government, and the party has also announced a non-legislative proposal calling for the infrastructure to be advanced. Cuarte Town Council has been requesting it for years.
ALMOST 15,000 VEHICLES A DAY ON AN URBAN ROAD
One of the main arguments is the pressure traffic places on the town center. Cuarte Mayor Elena Lacalle warned that “Cuarte has grown enormously, but its access roads have not”. Avenida del Rosario only allows vehicles to join the N-330 in the direction of Zaragoza, forcing numerous vehicles, including trucks, to travel through the town.
According to data provided by the PP, Avenida de la Constitución carries 14,653 vehicles a day, while Avenida del Rosario carries another 8,398. “An urban road with single-family homes is handling almost 15,000 vehicles a day, while the N-330 carries around 18,000. This is unbearable,” the mayor said. She stressed that the roundabout would allow “around 4,000 vehicles a day” to be diverted away from the main urban route.
The new connection would also provide direct access to Teruel, the A-23 and the Z-40 from Avenida del Rosario. Celma said the improvement would benefit both residents and “business activity along the corridor” by reducing heavy traffic through residential areas and improving the flow of daily journeys into and out of the municipality.
AN ALTERNATIVE ROUTE IN THE EVENT OF FURTHER FLOODING
The PP and the town council also link the project to safety during episodes of torrential rain. Celma recalled that “the floods of 2023 and 2025 demonstrated the vulnerability of Cuarte’s access roads” and said that having another entrance and exit could prove crucial if an emergency affecting the current connections were to happen again.
Lacalle stressed that Cuarte was already cut off during those floods and called for an alternative route both to evacuate residents and to facilitate the arrival of emergency services. “Cuarte has done its homework: we have a Mobility Plan and have completed the technical studies,” she said, before asking the government to advance, finance and carry out the project.
The town council has been requesting access improvements for nearly two decades and has drawn up a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan and a technical report for the roundabout. The General State Administration has analyzed the proposal and identified technical conditions, but, according to the PP, there is still no definitive solution or budget allocation to carry it out.
