The Northern Cycle sees light at the end of an eternal tunnel, but only for its first phase [ver información principal]. The second and final section remains a route through which doubts circulate about its long delays and its high cost. Of course, in favor of its materialization is the determined will that the Council has demonstrated since the PP led it to advance it, unlike the attitude of the PSOE which, despite the announcement of its execution, ended up by forgetting it because of its high cost: 220 million; amount, yes, particularly difficult to undertake in the long term financial crisis which started in 2008.
The second section is much more complicated – it will include burials – than the first, construction of which will begin in 2025, and will also be much more expensive. It will be 1.6 kilometers long – compared to the 600 meters that will begin to be undertaken next year. It will connect the Carrefour Sierra roundabout to Ruiz de Azúa and the Madres Escolapias roundabout, where the municipal section of this Tour ends -the cars crossed it for the first time in June 2021-.
Unknowns hover over the course of this infrastructure, which is very important for the road ring from Cordoba. When the Council presented the rescue of this forgotten project in July 2020, it clarified more precisely the timetable for the first phase, which also ended up being delayed. Fomento highlighted the start of work on the initial section for 2022. This work will ultimately only happen in 2025. And another issue shows the long lead times needed for work of this type.
At that time, Promotion He said he expected work on the first part to take about 18 months. When it was necessary to anchor the project in reality, its publishers (the Ayesa firm) determined that it should last a maximum of 30 months. The only deadline set in 2020 for the second phase was that 36 months would be needed to develop the project, another thermometer of the length of the schedule. And says the writing hasn’t started.
The landfill factor
To this must be added the enormous expenses which these public works will entail. More than four years ago, the Council estimated the cost of the second phase at 79.1 million. If you look at what happened with the first part, you see the formidable challenge facing the Advice. In the initial tranche, a disbursement of 17.5 million was initially proposed. In the end, it will be 34.5. Fomento explains this sharp increase by adapting the prices of these works to the increase in material costs, in addition to the changes introduced compared to what was initially proposed due to problems that became known as the work progressed. progress in the development of the final project.
A factor which must further increase the cost by 79.1 million is that an agreement has been announced with the neighborhood movement to increase the burials initially planned for 2020.
