At a parliamentary committee, Regional Development and Mobility Minister Mario Muñoz-Atanet committed to investing at least €150 million annually during this legislative term in roads owned by the regional government of Andalusia. He said road conservation and maintenance would remain a structural priority, with additional funding potentially coming from European Feder funds for reserved lanes, road safety and repairs to bridges and pedestrian walkways.
The regional government’s current road programmes include the €278 million Andalucía Actúa Plan; an extraordinary paving plan with more than €150 million in additional funding to rehabilitate over 1,000 kilometres of roads; and a €300 million plan for motorways and high-capacity routes. The latter is intended to restart strategic corridors including the Olive Oil Motorway, Córdoba’s North Ring Road, the Rota–El Puerto road widening and the Málaga–Ronda–Campillos route.
Muñoz-Atanet said sustainable mobility was central to equal opportunities and social cohesion. He said Andalusia would approve transport plans for its nine metropolitan areas and an Andalusian Sustainable Mobility and Transport Strategy, which would set the framework through 2050. The plans are intended to coordinate mobility through transport consortia for more than 6.4 million people across 258 municipalities.
Metropolitan public transport use rose from 74 million in 2019, and is projected to reach 150 million users in 2026. It recorded 77 million passenger journeys in the first half of the year, the minister said.
The department also plans to complete the Andalusian Infrastructure and Mobility Plan (PITMA) during this legislative term. Its monitoring level is expected to exceed 83% execution by the end of the year, with some areas, including promotion of public transport and intermodality, exceeding 100%, according to Muñoz-Atanet.
On transport infrastructure, he said the region would continue developing reserved lanes, bus-occupancy vehicle lanes on approaches to major metropolitan areas, and cycle routes linking stations and transport hubs. He also cited plans to bring the Jaén and Alcalá de Guadaíra trams into service and continue extensions to the Granada, Málaga and Seville metro systems. More than €1.9 billion has been mobilised for these projects, he said. A decree has been processed assigning the Andalusian Public Works Agency (AOPJA) responsibility for operating metropolitan railways.
Muñoz-Atanet also described ports and logistics areas as important to the region’s economic development and said the department would work to establish Andalusia as a major logistics platform in southern Europe.