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The mayor of the municipality and the Minister of Public Works today laid the foundation stone of the project to install a system to prevent falls or to improve road safety at the entrances to the town and presented the extension of the first tranche of this pathway, complementary projects that add a new "infrastructure necessary for our people"
Abarán Mayor, Antonio Eugenio Gomez, the Minister of Public Works and Planning, José Ballesta, and the Director of Roads, José Antonio Guijarro, today laid the foundation stone for the installation of a new system to prevent falls or to improve road safety at the entrances to the town.
Along with this project was also introduced to extend the first section of the road to Abarán, which will go from having one lane in each direction to have two.
Antonio Eugenio Gomez said that "it is necessary infrastructure to our people that bring benefits to abaraneros, especially since both projects are complementary: on the one hand, enhance road safety to prevent detachment of the slopes and on the other, is carry out the expansion of road that leads to an improvement in the area with the adequacy of sidewalks and parking facilities, garden items and road signs. "
With regard to the work started today, the Minister stressed that "this action will avoid the falling rocks and drag items to the road by rain or wind, which will ensure greater security in this way that records five million trips year. In addition, it is an area near the center of population for which there is pedestrian traffic, which will also benefit from this increase in security. "
Ballesta said this action meets a "double goal is to increase road safety abaraneros at the entrance to the town and increase comfort and efficiency in the inputs and outputs of the municipality."
The Minister stressed that "the banks will ensure entry Abarán punished by erosion and where there is a danger of detachment, with protection systems and networks through barriers and ensure that there is no disgrace on this road" .
These works will be carried out on the road RM-513, which gives access to people from the highway Cartagena-Albacete (A-30), and have a regional financing of 258.
432 euros.
In particular, we will proceed with the placement of seven metal meshes, four to five meters high, and a network of steel cable to protect 200 square meters.
"Due to the size of the protection elements will be used cranes for placing the metal mesh at those points where the access is more difficult," said José Ballesta.
The responsible regional noted that "the installation of these security features will prevent unforeseen at the erosion of the slope, improving the security of the entrances to town and immediately going to start splitting this entry through the landscaping and lighting ".
The deadline for execution of work as a whole is one year, so, as the slope should be strengthened first and then work will start on the road.
José Antonio Guijarro explained that the length of action is one kilometer, "will strengthen the platform of the sidewalks will be built strong and will take place slope protection to prevent any release on the road," he said.
Two lanes in each direction
Also, the mayor of Abarán and Minister of Public Works presented the project to expand the platform of the access road to Abarán (RM-513), which will have one lane in each direction to have two in the section understood from the 1 kilometer to the intersection with the road linking Abarán Cieza (RM-512).
The project, which was drafted by the City of Abarán also includes the construction of new sidewalks, installation of necessary signage and construction of parking on the stretch between the roundabout junction with the road RM-514 and the connection with Avenida de Cieza.
The works, which will provide greater safety and flow at the entrances to town, have a total budget of 788,591 euros, to be funded 90% by the Ministry of Public Works and Land Management with 709.
732 euros, while the City of Abarán contribute the remaining 10%.
Another improvement carried out by the Ministry, through the Directorate General of Highways, on the approaches to the population and with an investment of 233.
160 euros are made during the past year in the RM-B17, which connects the town with white and consisted of the curve straightening and separation of 600 meters from the road in an area prone to record falls of earth or stones, as well as improved access to adjacent properties and drainage system.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Abarán
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