Residents of urbanisation Puente Aguilar in Maro, which is a few metres from the A-7, are still not happy with noise levels in the area.
The residents of this area, mostly foreigners and including some who bought their properties nearly twenty years ago, are still not happy about noise levels in the area. They have been complaining ever since the start of works on the A-7 highway some seven years ago.
The A-7 Mediterranean highway, which links Nerja with La Herradura and Almuñecar, passes, in some cases, within a few metres of the houses. One resident is apparently unable to have her windows open as the traffic noise is ‘deafening’.
Some residents were surprised that their houses were not expropriated when work began on the highway, others are probably wishing they had been. The Highways Department had promised to install some sort of sonic barrier in the area and recently they did actually do something. They planted a small row of cypress trees.
Measurements taken by technicians from the Ministry of Public Works a couple of months ago confirmed that the daily noise levels in the area are between 80 and 90 decibels.