The Ministry of Transport has implemented, under the contract for the maintenance of the national roads in the northern part of the recently awarded province, the horizontal signage works that meet the demand of the neighborhood and the City of Silleda to allow direct access to the population centers on the left bank of the N-640 to the passage through Senra, in the parish of Escuadro.
In recent days, the horizontal signage of the road was modified with the painting of a central cebreado and the corresponding turning lane, thus putting an end to the duty of continuing the march to make a change of direction to the height of a restaurant located almost half a kilometer later, in the direction of the Estrada. Faced with the impossibility of turning at this point, both the neighborhood and the carriers that serve this livestock area, were enduring this annoying maneuver. In addition, the improvement also positively affects the neighborhood of Moalde for the routes in diretion the Sheet Metal.
The action was requested by the mayor of Silleda and deputy in Congress, Paula Fernández, during the meeting she held with the subdelegate of the Government, Abel Losada, on May 2. A meeting in which the head of the State Road Demarcation in Galicia, Ángel González del Río, and the provincial head, Pablo Domínguez, also participated.
Abel Losada admitted her surprise in the face of this situation, since the mayor explained that the problem arose in 2001, when during some works in the N-640 a continuous line was painted making the turn impossible. As early as 2007, the possibility of building acceleration lanes and also an underground passage was considered, but the solution was discarded due to its high cost.
Abel Losada is grateful for the involvement of those responsible for the Road Demarcation in Galicia and in the province of Pontevedra “to give this rational solution to a problem that, as the mayor explained very well during the meeting we had, should have been solved for a long time”.
The subdelegate stressed that this work was undertaken under the new contract for the maintenance of national roads in the northern sector of the province, which comes from being awarded for an amount of 8.73 million euros with a duration of three years. “This Government of Spain was very committed to conservation because a national effort was needed to reverse the accumulated effects of the policy of cuts during the period of President Rajoy, when historical minimums were reached.” Losada added that the average useful life of an asphalt pavement is 15 years “and therefore, as everyone can understand, of those cuts these potholes, so now it is time to invest everything that was not done between 2011 and 2018”.