The Figueres government team plans to soon commission the preliminary project to build the future northern ring of the city.
The City Council already has an economic assessment of what the 2.5 kilometer section that the council must assume would cost: 8.2 million euros.
The round will have two lanes - one per side - and will begin right at the entrance of the municipality coming from Llançà. It will run through l'Aigüeta, els Cendrassos and Horta Capellera to Perpiñán and Salvador Dalí avenues, where it should connect with the section with a tunnel under the Sant Ferran castle – the responsibility of the Generalitat – to connect with the AVE station.
Figueres currently has a single ring road, the southern one that connects the entrance from Llançà on the N-260 with the southern part of the municipality. However, on paper there are two others planned - apart from the expansion of the only one carried out so far -: the north and the west.
The west would connect the Olivar Gran area to the southern industrial sector and the north, the entrance to the city from Llança to Salvador Dalí Avenue in the direction of La Jonquera. The previous government team valued this section at around 2.8 million euros, not including the tunnel under the castle that should connect with the AVE station. This part of the work would be the responsibility of the Generalitat despite the fact that it has been on the table for years.
For the current municipal government, the northern round is the most urgent. For this reason, the city council commissioned an appraisal report that estimates the action at around 8 million euros. Now it is planned to commission the preliminary project to get to work.
The assessment includes various actions. Among them, two roundabouts: one on the C-252 road and another above the N-IIa, with a cost of about 600,000 euros in total. The most expensive part is the route that runs over crop fields (1.8 million euros) and the route on developable land up to C-252 (1.4 million euros). Draining the developable land would cost about 1.2 million more.
The mayor, Jordi Masquef, says that this is a necessary work to decongest traffic in the city center but admits that its cost is very high. "We have already spoken with other administrations, who have told us that they would participate," he says. Among them, the Girona Provincial Council, with which they have already held conversations.
