The Government delegate in Galicia, Pedro Blanco, today noted the progress of the construction work of the O Barco de Valdeorras bypass, executed by the Ministry of Transport, “an infrastructure called to improve the lives of the neighbors of Valdeorras” and in which the Government is investing more than 62 million euros. “With this action, the Government is responding to a historical demand; a Government that complies with the neighbors of the Boat, with Ourense and with Galicia and that is putting all the effort to make this infrastructure soon a reality, despite its complexity,” said Pedro Blanco.
During the visit, in which the delegate was accompanied by the mayor of the town, Alfredo García, and the subdelegate of the Government in Ourense, Eladio Santos, in which it is his first official view, explained that the object of the works is to provide a quick and safe connection to the N-536 and N-120 roads that also serves as a variant, thus avoiding the frequent passage of losette trucks from nearby quarries and other vehicles through the urban center.
The connection of the N-536 and N-120 roads as they pass through O Barco is a work with a high technical complexity. This new high-capacity road of 5.6 km in length includes the construction of 6 viaducts (highlights the viaduct on the Sil, of 405 meters, and the Cigüeño river of 258 meters), 1 tunnel of 490 meters in length under the mount of Serro, 3 upper steps and a lower one.
Currently, the work is focused on the implementation of the infrastructure that saves the entrance of the pipes of the Sobradelo hydroelectric power plant; on the excavation of the start of the O Serro tunnel and on the construction of the viaducts of the Sil and the Cigüeño River.
“This variant, once completed, is called to improve the lives of the residents of the Barco and the entire region of Valdeorras, saving time and improving travel safety and, at the same time, moving traffic away from the center of the villa,” recalled the delegate, who took advantage of the visit to review with the mayor some of the investments of the Government in the locality in terms of energy efficiency, heritage recovery or humanization of urban environments. In this sense, he told him that the Council “will always have an ally in this Government to make its projects a reality.”
Commitment to infrastructures
The delegate took advantage of the visit to highlight the more than 25 million euros invested by the Government in road conservation in the province of Ourense, such as the N-120 or the A-52, to which yesterday was added a new contract of 8.5 M€ for the whole State that includes preventive actions in viaducts of these same roads.
In this sense, he affirmed that this investment in conservation, which has been growing year after year since the arrival of Pedro Sánchez in Moncloa, “is another example of the impulse that this Government is giving to the infrastructures in the province and that it is also visible in the more than 500 million in the modernization of the railway route between Lugo and Ourense or in the arrival of high speed in Galicia”.