The Department of Public Works, directed Roque Ortiz, has used August to put a reset operation cobblestone streets in the restricted traffic located in the vicinity of the Cathedral running.
It has been decided to carry out the work at this time in order to make them coincide with the period of lower intensity of traffic and trade, generating the least possible inconvenience to citizens.
"We wanted to wait this time, where the holiday departure causes a decrease of cars in the city for works that are necessary due to deterioration presenting the pavement and at the same time, cause the least possible damage", explains Ortiz.
Since beginning the month and over the next few days, the company maintenance of public roads, TECOPSA (IN SITU) is carrying out repair of damaged areas in the driveway around the semi-pedestrian path Plaza Cetina, C / Barrionuevo, C / Salzillo Plaza Fontes, C / Marin Baldo, C / Gonzalez Adalid, C / Villaleal, C / Polo Medina and C / Frenería.
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Work will mainly focus on the cobblestone driveway, and depending on the degree of involvement of each of the areas, a particular procedure is used for repair.
The performances will take place over a distance of 850 meters.
Low to high degree of deterioration, the actions consist of:
1. Areas with unstable cobble who has just lost jointing material: I restrike with silica sand.
2. Areas with slight subsidence caused by defective services reruns: Lifted the pavement, filling and outplacement rasanteado Gravin and reused the same cobblestones.
3. Areas with fully released pavement and base gravin decomposed (normally in proximity scuppers curves and drain) complete demolition of concrete pavement slab.
Draining replacement hearth with concrete and paving on a bed Gravin and geotextile layer.
The total area of ​​repair will be about 600 m2 approximately, of them 450 there are areas of great deterioration that include complete demolition of pavement and replacement with draining concrete, geotextile, gravin and cobble, and 150 m2 remaining is repairs small spot subsidence.
Traffic courts
However, given that the actions are primarily running on the road, you need to cut off circulation at those points which are acting at all times, for which, there is provided a cutting device, signaling and information each of the ends of travel (Square Fontes from C / Correos and C / Madre de Dios from Gran Vía) to inform users of the garages the exact point to where you could get, and from which it should be returned by the same direction, counterclockwise.
This device is kept workday hours, returning to the usual direction of movement at the end of the day, whenever the state of the work permit opening to traffic, remaining the alternative device if not possible such openness.
Moreover, the Department of Public Works has informed -through writings-to communities affected owners of the garages, the itinerary available depending on the point of travel where the works are warnings.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia