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The mayor of Mazarrón, Francisco Blaya, and the Director of Public Works and Planning, José Ballesta, have launched today the first stone of the refurbishment of the voyage of Mazarrón, RM-332, which include the construction of a new roundabout and the widening of the carriageway on the stretch between the roundabout of the "Boats Phoenicians" and access to Puerto de Mazarrón, recording an annual traffic of over 6 million vehicles.

Councilor José Ballesta has emphasized that "the journey of Mazarrón is a major road on the approaches to the coast of Murcia, so that road safety improvements that have been projected to significantly contribute to reducing accidents on our roads. "

In this sense, José Ballesta recalled that the Regional Executive planned and executed numerous works of improvement in other parts of the more than 3,000 kilometers Road Network of the Autonomous Region of Murcia, as in the highway Lorca Eagles and at the entrance to La Manga del Mar Menor.

For the mayor of Mazarrón "this action is to eliminate a hot spot of shopping and high school traffic at peak times."

Francisco Blaya also noted the importance for citizens and tourists is this performance, especially for the holiday period where the tourist town where over 100,000 people.

For its part, the Minister referred to the duplication of part of the road between the town of Mazarron and the port, increasing from two to four lanes, "a performance that will improve traffic flow particularly during the summer months, when there are spikes in traffic of more than 30,000 vehicles a day, and that responds to the needs of the citizens of the Region of Murcia and the thousands of tourists who visit our beaches every summer, as well as making use of Mazarron this journey throughout the year. "

The work, awarded to a company in Murcia, have a budget of over half a million euros, and include the renewal of signaling and lighting of the road, and the operation of clearing necessary to widen the road, which will require moving more than 10 metric tons of earth.

Moreover, according to José Ballesta "in the current economic crisis this action will also keep jobs, given that public works is an important engine for economic activity of any territory, as you know the Government of the Region of Murcia, where this year we have ahead of investments and has made a special effort for the implementation of new infrastructure. "

The Director General of Highways, José Antonio Guijarro, stated that, although the works have an implementation period of 6 months, the contractor has undertaken to have them completed later this year.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Mazarrón