Diputación de Valencia puts €4.16m CV-324 upgrade between Sagunto and Petrés out to tender
The Valencia provincial council (Diputación de Valencia) has put out to tender a €4.16 million upgrade of the CV-324 road between Sagunto and Petrés, adding a separate cycle-and-pedestrian lane and a wider road.
Crossing the CV-324 on foot or by bike to reach Petrés today means sharing the road with traffic linking two motorways, the A-23 and the A-7. That, in essence, is the problem the Diputación de Valencia wants to solve with a full overhaul of the road between Sagunto and this small village, whose works contract, worth €4,164,590, is now out to tender.
The fact that a relatively short road carries so much through-traffic has a simple demographic explanation: Petrés, just 2 kilometres from Sagunto, has only 1,124 residents according to the 2025 census. The CV-324 therefore handles far more vehicles than the village itself would generate, because it works as an entry-and-exit corridor to both motorways. That mismatch also explains why the current route has so many friction points: housing estates, scattered homes, rural tracks and a school all have direct access onto a road that has become too narrow for so many different uses.
Leading the project is the Diputación's deputy chair and roads chief, Reme Mazzolari, who has set a ten-month deadline for the works. Maintaining roads has been a provincial responsibility since the institution was founded in 1833, when it was specifically tasked with conserving the territory's roads. Interestingly, whoever runs the Diputación today does not share the same political colour as whoever runs Sagunto: since July 2023 the provincial council has been chaired by the conservative Vicente José Mompó Aledo (PPCV), who took over from socialist Toni Gaspar, while Sagunto's town hall remains under the PSPV-PSOE (Valencian socialists). Despite that contrast, the investment is still going to a road Mazzolari describes as the main access to Petrés and a key piece of the wider regional road network.
On paper, the project will transform the CV-324 on several fronts at once. The roadway will be widened to seven metres, with one-metre shoulders on each side, and curves and other problem points on the route will be straightened. Crews will also reinforce the surface, improve visibility at access points, and tidy up entries from tracks and private land, as well as renewing drainage, signage, road markings and containment barriers.
For anyone walking or cycling, the most visible change will be a cycle-and-pedestrian path fully separated from traffic: three metres wide, kept apart from cars by a 70-centimetre buffer strip, running between the centre of Petrés and the Camí Vell de Terol (Old Terol Road). That covers just over 1.5 kilometres where, until now, there was no alternative to sharing space with vehicles.
The Diputación is not stopping at this one road: it has also put out a separate tender to improve the Camí Vell de Terol itself, under its programme for rural roads of territorial interest, so that both projects reinforce safety in the area together. The plan is rounded off with a new roundabout next to the overpass above the A-7, designed to organise traffic converging at that point.
While the works are underway, some temporary traffic restrictions on the CV-324 are likely, which is normal for a project of this scale on a road that cannot be fully closed without cutting off Petrés from the rest of the district. The Diputación has not yet detailed a schedule of closures or diversions, but the ten-month deadline set for the whole project gives a sense of its scale relative to the size of the village it serves.
Once finished, the works should be felt most in the daily life of people living in Petrés or the surrounding housing estates: fewer risky access points to their properties, and a safe car-free route into Sagunto. According to El Periódico de Aquí, with additional background from Wikipedia.