Road to Cayo Santa María
Road that was planned to go from the Abel Santamaria Airport to Cayo Santamaria, but was split in two section.
The Road to Cayo Santa María is a road that was planned to connect the Abel Santamaría Airport and Cayo Santa María in order to get tourists from the airport to the hotels faster and safer. The road currently has two parts and is under construction. The first section is commonly known as the Road to the Santa Clara Airport, which goes from the airport to the Road of Camajuaní. The second section starts from the Circuito Norte, and goes east on the part known as the Cayo Santa María Causeway and continues until the Cayo Santa María.
History
In 1989, Fidel Castro states plans on making roads to connect to the provinces keys and make it a tourist area, with construction of the Causeway starting later that year. The Causeway finished paving all 48 km in 2000, becoming the longest Courseway in the world and has been awarded the Puente de Alcántara prize for the "Best Ibero-American Civil Works", for its size, structure, and engineering in an area of great economic potential and its integration into the natural landscape. In 2020, Mintur, made an observation on the causeway, with it needing the readjustment of the metal road protection curbs, along more than 40km, and the repair of several connecting bridges of the viaduct. The biggest hit on the road was Hurricane Irma in 2017, causing increasing displacement of the internal components of the structure.
The road from the airport was first planned to be 53 km and go directly from the airport to the Causeway, with it going south of the Road to Camajuaní and the Circuito Norte, near the towns of Bartolomé and Rojas, on the Remedios–Zulueta Road (4–641) and Carretera a Rojas. The plan was supposed to be revived in 2011, with 15 km already built beforehand, they just needed the final touches for it to get approved for the economy of next year, although the road is currently only under construction in the eastern intersection with the Circuito Norte, and nothing appears to be done in the west.
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