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Public Works invests more than 600,000 euros in this action will allow safer travel more than 90,000 inhabitants in the municipality of Lorca
The Director General of Roads of the Ministry of Public Works and Planning, Jose Guijarro, accompanied by the mayor of Lorca, Francisco Jodar, today made the cornerstone of the work on improving the road between Lorca and Totana Zarzadilla the RM-C9, a performance which will increase road safety of drivers and improve the connection east of the Shire of Upper Guadalentín, facilitating communications with Aledo.
Jose Guijarro noted that this action, which invests 660,000 euros Works, a direct benefit "to the more than 90,000 inhabitants in the municipality of Lorca, and conditioning of the C-9 will allow safer travel between the nuclei Lorca population of Barranco del Prado, Torrealvilla, Rambla de Torrealvilla, Zuniga, La Juncosa and Zarzadilla of Totana.
The director general noted that "this performance, conducted at the request of the City of Lorca and the locals, has a deadline of three months and represents the first phase of the comprehensive project for upgrading the C-9, which goes MR-711 (Sales Cavila Lorca) to RM-503 (Bullas to Aledo).
The project includes the widening of the existing road, which will have two lanes of 3.5 meters wide and one meter shoulders on each side.
It will also carry out road marking and vertical road marking and the section under overall performance, which begins at the intersection with Highway Aledo, MR-C21.
In this regard, he stressed that the recent improvement of the first tranche of the RM-C21, which were finished last April and the upcoming start of the second phase of the action, will complete the secondary network of Lorca, enhancing communications in the regions of Upper and Lower Guadalentín.
Recycling process
Improving the C-9 will take place through a new system that is to 'recycle' the road surface, taking advantage of existing material, so it is a more economical than conventional.
"Moreover, the quality of the firm is the same as that of a cluster of ordinary type, so the results are equally satisfactory," said the director general of Roads.
The recycling process is executed with a specific machine that grinds the existing asphalt and mixes it with cement and water.
The resulting composition lying on the road again and then compacted with rollers.
The operation ends with the spread of a new layer of particle board.
Source: CARM
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