Local Police Cartagena has reported that as of Wednesday, March 30, between 11.00 and 12.00, access to Plaza de Alicante on the motorway will be cut due to the works that will undertake the Highways to repair last stretch of this road entrance to Cartagena.
These works were to be undertaken before Easter, but were delayed to avoid adversely have a bearing on the arrival of tourists and visitors during processions.
Safety devices of the local police to pay special monitoring traffic coming to the city, which will be diverted in three alternative routes:
From the rotunda of the polygon, as access from the highway, the road to Torreciega Los Camachos (RM-F55).
Exit the motorway towards La Union road that leads to the Plaza de Bastarreche.
Exit the motorway towards the Hospital of Saint Lucia and the Port.
This work is expected to last about two months;
then works affecting the output of Cartagena to the motorway at the Plaza de Alicante, which is also expected to be long two months will begin.
Thus, the first two months only affected traffic into the city.
VERY DAMAGED BY POLLUTION
Demarcation of State Highways will carry out this work consist board repair, pillars and replacement of the bridge containment systems with a more modern and durable.
Such operations allow maintenance repair damage to the bridge, especially in the vicinity of the old factory Potasas and derivatives due to the negative effect they have had emissions into the atmosphere on the structure of the A-30.
The replacement of the containment system (parapet) viaduct, with a more modern, adapted to the regulations of the Ministry of Public Works in 2014, will require strengthening the outer edges of the board, being necessary to perform a partial demolition of it first, in a greater than 1 m width, to run a reinforcement of reinforced concrete on which support the new security barrier.
To carry out these actions specialized high-power machinery, which requires cutting completely and alternative driveway entrance or exit to the city of Cartagena in which you are working is used, since the actions to be taken not can be carried out with traffic, due to the danger of a possible exit route of a vehicle, it collides against the provisional barriers located on the edge of the board and may lead to a fall with a large gap, a circumstance that could aggravate because the viaduct passes over the line of FFCC Cartagena-Madrid.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena