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Fulgencio Gil: "we are going to solve the serious traffic problems in the round of San Antonio" (27/11/2018)

A new and ambitious investment of the Autonomous Community, through the Ministry of Development, allows bidding for the works of regeneration of the neighborhood, whose scope of action comprises 61,680 m2, with a deadline of 10 months.

The Mayor of Lorca, Fulgencio Gil, has affirmed that the works of urban regeneration in San Antonio and the construction of a subterranean passage under the current round constitute the urban consolidation of a city, whose interior plot had been cut off by the access to the highway , badly planned from its origin, since it left out a neighborhood that is now going to integrate into the city, not only thanks to these works, but also to the suppression and dismantling of the La Viña electric substation.

The Mayor explained that the project now tendered is part of the municipal plan for the neighborhood, which is made up of 3 fundamental interventions, such as the urban renewal of the neighborhood, the construction of the lower passage to exit and entrance to the highway and promote the measure of the possibilities of the City Council that develop urbanistically the land that occupied the old electrical substation.

The first two aspects, which are those directly dependent on this Municipal Executive, are already underway, and the third we expect to move forward, once the dismantling of the lines and structures has been completed.

In this way we are going to get the San Antonio neighborhood integrated into the city, suppressing the physical barriers that currently make up an interior border in the center.

The challenge is to get San Antonio to become part of the urban area, allowing the city to grow in an orderly and natural way.

Fulgencio Gil has indicated that the city project that we are currently executing has a very broad path, with a time frame that goes beyond 2025, building the urban facilities and infrastructures that this city needs, and completing the claims that historically we have placed on the table (underground railway, central round, municipal road network, fair and congress center, investments in districts.)

We are talking about integrating San Antonio effectively, comfortably and safely into the urban area, ending with a physical barrier like the exit of the highway and stimulating the actions that allow the union with La Viña.

The Mayor has emphasized that with the execution of this project we will be able to solve another one of the historical errors that we find, such as the expensive lower pedestrian crossings, which almost nobody uses because they are uncomfortable and unsafe, and which were imposed against the criteria of the own citizens and the proposals of our political formation, which has been claiming it since the 90s.

The main action is the construction of an underpass under the existing roundabout in the Águilas fast track (RM-11) to decongest traffic in the neighborhood

The actions that will be carried out are aimed at repairing and conditioning the public spaces damaged by the 2011 earthquakes and also improving the urban services to the neighbors, such as sewage, stormwater, potable water, gas, electricity and telecommunications networks .

The main action is the construction of a lower pass under the existing roundabout that connects the A-7 motorway with the RM-11 highway, which will contribute to the decongestion of the neighborhood's traffic.

The Minister of Development and Infrastructure, Patricio Valverde said that "this intervention is part of the plan of urban renewal works that promotes the regional government for the comprehensive reconstruction of Lorca, whose goal is the recovery and development of the social and economic fabric of the city "

The works will be developed in coordination with the town council of Lorca, which will make available the land necessary for the execution of the works and will provide technical support for the drafting of the projects.

The scope of action includes some 61,680 square meters and the term of execution of the works will be 10 months.

The investment to be made in the neighborhood is distributed in the 2018 and 2019 annuities and will be financed by the Community under the loan contracted with the European Investment Bank (EIB).

Solve congestion problems

Half of the budget of the work will be used to solve the congestion problems suffered by the roundabout of the connection link of the A-7 motorway with the RM-11 motorway or the Aguilas- fast track in Lorca, which would also allow greater accessibility from the neighborhood to the rest of the city of Lorca.

In the current roundabout, all the entry and exit movements are concentrated from the A-7 motorway, the start of the RM-11 highway, the Granada highway (former N-340) and the access to the San Juan Bosco Secondary Education Institute. .

According to the owner of Development, "this action will definitively resolve the difficulties of road safety and pedestrian accessibility."

The intensity of road traffic is greater than 19,000 vehicles per day, to which must be added the pedestrian mobility, especially at the time of entry and exit of IES San Juan Bosco.

The work will consist in separating the movements that cross the roundabout, directing the main movement (from the A-7 towards the RM-11 road) in an underground trajectory under the roundabout towards a lower passage, with which said movement will be carried out directly without going through the roundabout and at a different level than the rest, which will mean a clear and notable decongestion of the current circulation.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca

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