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The Director of Roads, José Antonio Guijarro, accompanied by the mayor of Villanueva del Segura, José Luis López, today visited the construction of the new bridge on the Rambla del Mayes, which will improve road safety for 675,000 drivers who pass annually through this section and this will double the capacity of the old bridge.

The bridge, whose construction began last March, is located on the road between Ojós with Archena (RM-522), passing by the municipality of Villanueva del Río Segura, a communication channel that runs through the Rambla del Mayes, north of town.

The project, which has a budget allocation of 869,580 euros and a lead time of eight months, will solve the 'bottleneck' that causes the current situation, in which the existing single lane does not permit simultaneous movement in both senses.

This issue will be resolved with the performance of regional government.

"With this work, from the regional government take a step further to increase road safety throughout the National Road Network of the Autonomous Region of Murcia, for both drivers and pedestrians to see increased security.

In addition, it provides enhanced mobility throughout the region of Valle de Ricote, "remarked the director general.

The section on which work has a length of 324.36 meters, spread on both sides of the Rambla, where you build a bridge of 120 meters with two lanes of 3.5 meters each, the corresponding shoulders of 1 , 5 meters and two sidewalks of 2 meters wide.

On the other hand, is planning to remove small radius curves that give access to the existing bridge to improve road safety, the environment.

Finally, Pebble recalled that "it is a considerable improvement in the layout and traffic on this road junction between the municipalities of Valle de Ricote, which will benefit not only the infrastructure itself, but also the jobs created investment by the regional government, which also will inject public money to revive the local economy, as is done in all the municipalities in the region. "

Source: CARM