The City Council of La Victoria de Acentejo has launched the Asphalt Plan, which will improve twenty streets in different areas of the municipality and has a budget of 554,000 euros for the two phases planned within this initiative, whose work has begun recently.
Through this program of actions, the aim is to improve the conditions of road safety, mobility and driving comfort of users, which will also favor a reduction in fuel consumption and less wear on vehicle tires.
The mayor, Juan Antonio García, has visited the first performances of the plan, which will last for the next six months. “Almost all the neighborhoods will be intervened -he explains-, although most of them will be median roads that are part of the communication network of different urban centers, cultivated and forest areas”. “In addition to safety, these road improvements will have a favorable impact on agricultural activity,” remarks García.
The program will make it possible to pave and rehabilitate the pavement of about twenty streets that in total add up to an area of more than 35,000 square meters. Among the works, those that are going to be carried out on the Pedro Hernández and Fuente El Tanque roads stand out, with surfaces of 5,439 and 4,486 square meters, respectively. “The selection of routes
-says the mayor- it has been done based on the urgency of greater security that they need, taking into account the state of damage that they present and the traffic that they support. In addition, neighborhood demands have been taken into account.
All roads have different levels of deterioration. Its origin is determined by the action of rainwater, which, in excess and lacking proper processing, erodes the firm. The result is the loss of aggregates and elevation at different points, as well as the cracking of the surface layer, deficiencies that entail risks for driving, especially when many roads have not been acted on for many years. “We must take into account the orography of our municipality -indicates Juan Antonio García-, where more than 90% of the streets are on a slope, some of them very steep, so it is necessary to provide security to drivers and pedestrians, at the same while facilitating the connectivity of the different nuclei”.
The works will consist of the resurfacing of the roads, prior sanitation of the roads and the removal of the old surface layer when necessary. In addition, in some areas anti-slip strips are planned and safety reducers are placed in various sections. Finally, the new horizontal signaling will be carried out.
