The mayor of Puerto Lumbreras, M ª Angeles Túnez, and the Minister of Development and Infrastructure, Patricio Valverde, have moved today to the regional highway RM-D16 to check in person the start of the construction of a roundabout.
The infrastructure will have four branches that will serve the Animal Disinfection Center and Livestock Market, the urban center of the municipality, a rural road, and the hamlet of La Estación-Esparragal.
The new roundabout will have an external diameter of 36 meters and 20 inside.
The roadway will be formed by a six-meter lane, with a one-meter shoulder.
Inside the roundabout there will be a central island paved with a garden parterre.
The work will be completed with the signage, pavement and lighting of it.
"The implementation of this action is key to increasing road safety in the municipality, since it will involve the elimination of a black spot for traffic, which will also lead to an important improvement in traffic and access to the local market. Won, "explained the Mayor.
The roundabout will order traffic in 1.8 million journeys per year along the RM-D16 highway, which is the main communication route between the urban core of this municipality and the hamlet of La Estación-El Esparragal.
It should be noted that the work has an investment of 232,000 euros by the Autonomous Community, through the Ministry of Development and Infrastructure.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Puerto Lumbreras