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Automobile traffic will be diverted through an alternative route for 45 days
Adif improve safety at level crossing pp.kk.
460/618 located at the Tower Street and St. Pius Romo in the district of St. James Murcia.
The level crossing was just off in the direction of Murcia and Alicante Cartagena branch.
The planned investment to improve level crossing mentioned more than 210,000 euros (VAT included).
This action is part of Suppression and Enhancement Plan of Level Crossings launched by the Ministry of Development in 2005 with a total budget of 1,320 million euros.
The Ministry of Public Works to remove the largest possible number of crossings, has developed within the Strategic Infrastructure Plan for Transport (PEIT), the Security Plan Level Crossings, which is designed specifically to suppression and improved safety level crossings on the rail network of general interest.
This plan includes a schedule that prioritizes the actions commensurate with the level of risk for each step and coordinates their execution both to the individual owners of the vials (municipalities and autonomous regions, mainly) and with the new routes under the Strategic Infrastructure Plan and Transport (PEIT).
Under the Suppression and Enhancement Plan of level crossings in the year 2012 will be eliminated 1,931 level crossings.
Description of works
The actions will take place at the level crossing of St. James are:
1 .- Replacing the current tread a new 'strail', which offers better security for the trafficking of persons, vehicles and railway trains.
Strail technology is based on modular structures of vulcanized rubber high slip resistance, even in adverse weather conditions.
It has excellent electrical insulation and is highly resistant to weather, and thus has great strength and durability.
Adif has launched a plan to install this technology (with proven experience in the European rail network) standard across its network after the excellent results obtained in the level crossings that currently have it.
Its advantages are:
Rolling security for vehicles and pedestrians.
50% reduction in time and subsequent cost of maintenance of way, given their construction through practical module that allows you to mount quickly and without requiring heavy equipment.
Grip performance superior to those obtained on roads.
Reduction of noise pollution.
2 .- Improved acoustic and visual signal for the crosswalk.
3 .- Displacement of the technical elements that enable the drive.
4 .- Install a detector of obstacles on the road.
This is a warning to the driver of the train of the presence or absence of vehicles when approaching the crossing.
Is basically a loop with a metallic conductor buried just inches below the pavement of the level crossing, which emits electromagnetic waves capable of detecting the presence of metallic objects.
Comes into operation at the same instant as the train passes over the mechanism that triggers the descent of the semibarreras.
When semibarreras have dropped and the system detects a metal object continues in a certain area in the level crossing, possibly a vehicle for any cause has not been going over-time, activates a signal informing the operator that the step is not protected.
The improvement works have a lead time of 45 days, during which automobile traffic will be diverted to an alternative route provided by the City Council: Highway Fuensanta Side of the Road and Rail in the lantern.
Adif planned and anticipated the passage of the traditional procession of the Virgen de la Fuensanta by that level crossing at St. James the Great, so the works will not cause any impediment.
Source: Delegación del Gobierno en Murcia
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