The Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility has formalized the contract of works for the improvement of road safety and reorganization of pedestrian traffic on the N-352 road, from km 2,100 to 2,700, in La Almadraba, within the autonomous city of Ceuta, for 3.55 million euros (IPSI included). The announcement will soon be published in the Official State Gazette (BOE).
Thus, action will be taken on 600 meters of the road to promote sustainable and active mobility with the construction of sidewalks, pedestrian crossings or a gazebo. The lighting will also be improved and vegetation will be put on.
Currently, this section presents improvement options to which is added a high traffic intensity (13,200 vehicles/day) with the majority being agitated traffic as it is a crossing section. In addition, it increases enormously in the summer period, due to the additional movement generated by Operation Strait Pass (O.P.E. ), so that the traffic jams caused by the border procedures come to collapse this road and others of the Autonomous City of Ceuta.
The action thus includes providing this section with two lanes of circulation in the direction Frontera and one lane in the opposite direction, all of 3 m in width. Among the objectives of this improvement are:
▪ Promote the mobility of pedestrians, cyclists and other new forms of mobility.
▪ Reduce spaces dedicated to cars and slow down their speed. To do this, the works consist of:
▪ Reordering of the cross-section of the road throughout the stretch.
▪ Turning the Intersection at T with Calle Reyes Católica into a Gazebo
. ▪ Creation of sidewalks of width between 1.5 and 2 m on both sides of the track.
▪ Furnishing of urban furniture. Installation of guardrails.
▪ Creation of corks and tree planting.
▪ Creation of ramps and steps to access real estate.
▪ Reorganization of parking spaces and reservation of waste containers.
▪ Widening of cantilevered sidewalk on the left margin (new glorious environment).
▪ Rehabilitation of the road surface.
▪ Creation of two new pedestrian crossings.
▪ Public lighting throughout the stretch.
▪ Grounding of existing airlines (electricity and telephony).
▪ Improvement of rainwater sanitation.
▪ Improved vertical signage and signage
This action is funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan. The project complies with the universal accessibility requirements announced by the Safe, Sustainable and Connected Mobility Strategy (EMSSC) in line 1.5 “Universal Accessibility”