The deputy delegate of the Government in A Coruña, María Rivas visited this morning the city of Ames where she held a meeting with its mayor, Blas García, the councilor of works, Gustavo Niego Santiago and with the councilor of urbanism Víctor Manuel Fernández Prieto.
The deputy delegate was accompanied by the Director of the Development Area of the Government Delegation, Ana Quintairós, the Head of the State Road Demarcation, Angel González del Rio; the Head of the Road Conservation Area of A Coruña, Francisco Prego; and Ignacio Ardá as Engineer of the General Directorate of Roads and director of the work.
The work financed by the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility is a very important action amounting to 4.4 million euros (VAT included) that will give an urban character to a 1.52 kilometer stretch of the N-550 road, as it passes through Milladoiro.
The deputy delegate and the mayor, Blas García, wanted to point out the importance that a work of this nature has for the Milladoiro, “it is an urban crossing that must be modernized in such a way that we gain space for pedestrians, for the configuration of green areas and for cycling”.
The subdelegate indicated that “the main objective of the action will be to reduce and calm traffic, adapting and renewing this infrastructure to improve active mobility and make it safer and sustainable, in line with the green agenda promoted by the Government.”
Thus, a humanization action will be developed that leads to a reduction in the speed of circulation on the crossing; reordering and optimizing the public space and delimiting the use of each of the areas.
One of the most important actions will be the reduction of a circulation lane to the traffic rolled by each of the senses with a width of 3.5 meters; as well as the construction of a median landscaped street of 3.3 m wide between the streets Rúa Del Rego and Calle Carta and 2.0 m wide in the rest of the crossing.
It will also provide the crossing of a bicycle lane with a double sense of circulation, in line with the State Strategy for the use of the bicycle. The sidewalks will be extended, after demolition of the current ones, to allow a recovery of the space for the pedestrian, thus increasing the areas for pedestrians, loading and unloading and reserved parking.
The work will be completed with the remodeling of several intersections, the rearrangement of crossings and accesses, the installation of zebra crossings and new traffic lights, the demolition of the pedestrian walkway, as well as the living areas for pedestrians, loading and unloading areas, renovation of lighting, improvement of bus stops and the creation of wooded areas.
María Rivas also wanted to point out that this intervention is financed from the urban environment improvement program of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR), endowed with 105 million from the NextGenerationEU fund.