The government delegate in Galicia, Pedro Blanco, and the mayor of A Coruña, Inés Rey, visited the new footbridge of Pedralonga, in A Coruña, which crosses Alfonso Molina Avenue at the height of the kilometric point 3+550. At the event, they were accompanied by the deputy delegate of the Government in A Coruña, María Rivas, the councilor for Urban Planning, José Manuel Lage, and neighbors and neighbors of the area.
This new walkway will represent a significant improvement in the pedestrian permeability of Alfonso Molina Avenue between the neighborhoods of Palavea, Pedralonga and Eirís, improving road safety for pawns. In addition, it will allow to eliminate the previous pedestrian routes on the link between the N-550 and the avenue of Alfonso Molina (AC-11).
This is the first completed update of the three that are programmed by the Ministry of Transport for the improvement of the avenue of Alfonso Molina, which include the remodeling of the avenue Alfonso Molina, whose works are already in execution, with the previous works of identification of affected services and topographic rethinking and which has a budget of 18.31 million euros; the environmental integration of the avenue (4.4 million euros) and the Pedralonga walkway itself (1.4 million euros).
The action is included in the program for the modernization of more than 80 tunnels, in the protection of vulnerable users and fauna and the promotion of sustainability, energy efficiency and noise reduction in the State Road Network, financed with 659 million euros of the Recovery Plan. It is, in addition, the first work that was started in Galicia financed from the funds of the Recovery Plan.
Technical characteristics
The new pedestrian itinerary that includes the new walkway begins (from North to South) on the pedestrian sidewalk attached to the Arms Factory, with a concrete slope of 3 m of free width for the pawns and a maximum longitudinal slope of 6%, complying with the conditions of comfortable accessibility.
Next, cross the AC-11 with a stretch of metal structure of the same width and 52 meters in length, without intermediate supports, with a slope of 2%.
In order to avoid the existing water supply pipes, it continues with another stretch, also in metal structure, of 56 meters in length and 6% of slope. Finally, the itinerary ends with a new concrete slope (next to the shopping center) with a slope of 6%.
The action also includes the urbanization of roads and sidewalks and the replacement of affected services. The remaining work to complete and cancel the current pedestrian itineraries will end this month of February.
Other performances in the environment
Apart from the aforementioned actions to improve the Alfonso Molina Avenue, the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility put into service last December the lower pass of the new link of the AC-12 motorway, at kilometric point 5.200, as it passed through the center of Perillo (Oleiros). Action, of more than 10 million euros of investment and with which today it benefits the important road traffic of 50,000 vehicles per day and the center of Perillo (Oleiros), for the great reduction of acoustic impacts and the great improvement of pedestrian itineraries and the very zebra steps that are carried out at different levels.
Currently, completion actions are being undertaken consisting of urbanization, humanization and aesthetic and landscape integration of the urban fabric of the upper level of the link. These actions will conclude in the middle of this year 2024.
The project to extend the Pasaxe bridge over the Burgo estuary is also being drafted: a new bridge parallel to the existing hala that will benefit both the AC-11 and the AC-12 and the public transport itself, since these are the two main roads to the Coruña, as well as the regional roads AC-173 and AC-174, in Oleiros. This action also involves the humanization of pedestrian and cycling routes by connecting with the adjacent maritime promenades of A Coruña and Oleiros.