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The improvement works carried out by the Ministry of Development and Infrastructures on the RM-D5 road, which connects the RM-332 (Mazarrón-Águilas) with Pastrana, in the municipality of Mazarrón, have significantly increased the safety of The road by modifying a dangerous curve and widening the width of the road.
The director general of Roads, Jose Antonio Fernandez and the mayor of the town, Alicia Jiménez, visited the area today after finishing the works in that way that circulate an average of 230,000 vehicles a year, of which ten percent are Heavy vehicles, due to the proximity of farms.
With the completion of these works, with an investment of 24,155 euros, a demand is met by neighbors and users of this road, whose cession of land to expand it have managed themselves.
Fernández explained that at the 1.1 kilometer point of this road "there was a curve without visibility due to the proximity of a slope sloping steeply, which caused insecurity to drivers, and even accidents were detected when crossing two heavy vehicles due To the narrow platform at that point. "
The road, which has two lanes, one for each direction, had a width of 4.7 meters and the works have allowed it to expand up to three meters more, currently having a platform that reaches up to 7.7 meters, At the center point of the curve.
The tasks have consisted in retracting the slope and widening the road, placing a wedge agglomerated of 3 meters in the interior of the curve, increasing the visibility and the security.
In addition, the transverse drainage has been extended with a 1,000-millimeter diameter pipe to channel the water and improve storm drainage of this section of track.
Source: CARM
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