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The mayor of La Union, Francisco Bernabé, along with Councillor for Infrastructure and Second Deputy Mayor of Cartagena, José Vicente Albaladejo, presented this morning work on the new stretch of bike path that connects the neighboring municipality to Cartagena, completed this summer.

The project, part of a collaboration agreement signed by the mayors of both municipalities for actions of common interest, involves the construction of a bike lane on the highway that connects Cartagena with the Union, being the section that corresponds to the latter town.

Barnabas explained that the two miles of track that correspond to La Union, located on Avenida Sierra Minera, are one run and the other works, and that the summer is over.

Barnabas was pleased because this connection, the Union will have a real street with all the guarantees between the two locations.

The works of two miles of bike lanes have contadon unionense municipality had a budget of € de590.000 investment.

For his part, Councillor for Infrastructure explained that this agreement was signed with the city of Cartagena, certainly provides very important cases and this is the most symbolic, from the point of view of the Union and the port city.

Albaladejo has stressed that Cartagena will be 6 miles of bike lanes, from the connection in La Union to the junction in the port city at the height of the railway station.

The first phase, starting after the summer, to 2.8 kilometers long and the 2011 course is planned to start the second phase, involving the rest of kilometers, ie, 3.2 miles of rail bike.

Furthermore, the second mayor pointed out that the bike lane project is now complete and Cartagena week will be supervised by municipal technicians.

He added that he is going to be monitoring the project and then be forwarded to hire immediately.

The first phase will begin in a matter of weeks.

The budget is an investment of approximately one million euros, of which 700,000 are from the Directorate General for Transport and Ports of the Region of the Ministry of Public Works.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena