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The action includes a rearrangement of traffic get reduced speed on road from Cartagena to La Aljorra

The Ministry of Public Works and Planning, in response to the request of the neighborhood association hamlet of Mill Demolished Cartagena, will launch this week a set of actions on the road from Cartagena to La Aljorra (MU-602 ), as it passes through this town, to improve road safety for drivers and pedestrians.

Among the various measures that will carry out the Directorate General of Highways was the installation of streetlights shock to minimize injuries in case of accidents.

"These street lamps that the Department has already placed in other sections of the Regional Road Network with excellent results, combine safe lighting of the road to reduce accidents, as in the case of a collision, its flexibility allows the lamp to bend or split in two, as the impact force, so that injuries are reduced significantly, "said director of Roads, Jose Guijarro.

The project also includes realignment of the road traffic.

First, adapting to the needs of the residents of the hamlet of La Aljorra, will enable a pedestrian crossing in the area more pedestrian crossings are recorded.

It also would ensure that vehicles on the crossing to slow down by narrowing the roadway, as a specific action at this point recommended by the engineers, and construction of a central median.

On both sides of the pedestrian crossing be placed two speed bumps and sidewalks will be installed at pedestrian continuity along the entire journey.

The project includes the paving of the road, the placement of new horizontal and vertical signage and pruning of trees near the road.

Finally, the Director General of Highways said that "the action that has a deadline of two months and cost over 200,000 euros, aims to improve the traffic conditions of the road to meet request Demolished Mill residents, who have new sidewalks and crosswalks, as well as a road safer and better signposted.

Source: CARM