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These are projects within the Road Safety Plan, which envisages an investment of 62.7 million euros to the year 2011

The Ministry of Public Works and Planning, through the Directorate General of Highways, develops an action plan to improve road safety in the Campo de Cartagena, which provides shortcuts to improve agricultural roads Irrigators Community holds in the Campo de Cartagena, concentrating on more than a dozen roundabouts to help improve road safety in the area.

This initiative aims to reduce road accidents between San Javier in Cartagena (MR-F35), Torre Pacheco and Cartagena (MR-F36) and Torre Pacheco with the A-30 (through Roland and Los Martínez del Puerto, MR-F21) to what is already being drawn up the plans for the construction of several roundabouts to be located in the most contentious of these three roads.

According to the Director General of Highways, Jose Guijarro, "although the Road Safety Plan of the Autonomous just two percent blamed the accident on the road to the road conditions from the regional government still bet to reduce that rate further, improving the points of the Road Network of the Autonomous Region showed the greatest number of accidents. "

In this sense, it also will improve access of agricultural roads in the road between Los Alcazares with Balsicas (MR-F26), which connects San Cayetano in Los Alcazares (MR-F27), which connects La Puebla Pozo Aledo (MR-F28) as well as the route that begins and ends in Torre Pacheco in San Javier (MR-F29), which henceforth will be regulated by roundabouts "which ensured that the claims be practically reduced to zero , as stated by the director general.

Jose Guijarro noted that "are projects within the Road Safety Plan, which envisages an investment of 62.7 million euros to the year 2011 with the aim to further reduce the number of claims in the 3,000 kilometers of roads in regional ownership" .

"This commitment to improving road safety by the regional administration allows rates of accidents with fatalities recorded in the National Road Network of the Autonomous Region in 2008 descended by 38 percent over the previous year," concluded the CEO.

Source: CARM