The Director of Roads, Jose Guijarro, said, "This action is complementary to the construction of the highway Yecla-Santomera that the regional government funded more than 200 million euros"
The Ministry of Public Works and Planning has sent contract works Abanilla road that leads to the hamlet of Mahoya (RM-412), a performance in which the Ministry, through the Directorate General of Highways will invest 4.5 million euros.
The project represents an extension of the platform, which will be 10 meters wide and includes the implementation of a new bridge over the Chicama River 225 meters to replace the existing.
It will also carry out the construction of three roundabouts along the route, which will improve road safety, and the replacement of the affected services.
The Director of Roads, Jose Guijarro, said that "the actions requested by the City Council Abanilla is required by the current state of the road, which has suffered an increase in traffic resulting from socioeconomic growth of the area, which has exceeded the million annual trips, of which over 40 per cent are heavy vehicles from the aggregates industry in the area. "
The road object of this action is part of an itinerary of top-level network that runs along the eastern edge of the region, so that the works will improve communications both in the municipality of Abanilla as its connection to the surrounding villages.
According advanced the general director of Roads, is scheduled to begin work in the last quarter of the year.
Boost for road infrastructure
Finally, José Guijarro noted that "the actions that the Ministry will embark on the road RM-412 is complementary to the construction of a new highway Yecla-Santomera that the regional government funded more than 200 million euros and that will connect the district of Altiplano to the Mar Menor in less than an hour, past the towns of Yecla, Abanilla Santomera Fortuna. "
These actions will allow the discharge of heavy traffic on the road today.
Infrastructure is expected to have a traffic capacity to absorb more than seven million vehicles per year, communities backbone Murcia and Valencia, and easing the Madrid-Alicante, which runs parallel.
Source: CARM