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This morning, the Mayor of Bullas, María Dolores Muñoz, and the General Secretary of the Ministry of the Presidency and Development, Yolanda Muñoz, together with the Director General of Roads, José Antonio Fernández, visited the beginning of the works to improve the road safety at the intersection of the road from Bullas to La Copa.

The works, which are expected to last six months, have a budget amounting to 189,671.09 euros and will consist of the construction of a new roundabout at the intersection of the RM-B18 highway (Bullas-La Copa), which connects with the center of the municipality of Bullas and with the Northwest motorway (RM-15), improving the road safety of the vehicles that go towards Murcia and access from the towns of Cehegín and Caravaca de la Cruz.

"The Community will suppress a conflict point for traffic that currently involves the intersection of this road with Sixth Street in December, where traffic problems are recorded due to lack of visibility due to the proximity of a curve to it," he explained. Yolanda Muñoz, adding that the average annual traffic of heavy vehicles rises to more than 20,000.

According to the technician commented to those present, among which were also councilors of the Government Team of the City of Bullas as well as the Popular Party, the intersection will be resolved thanks to the construction of a roundabout, which will lengthen the central island, in form of a tear, and that will connect the central island with the north deflecting island.

The outer radius of the roundabout is 34.60 meters and has a rail of 7.30 meters wide and outer shoulders and interiors of one meter.

In this roundabout, five different roads converge: Carretera de La Copa, Calle Seis de Diciembre, the Bullas access ramp from the Northwest motorway (Bullas centro exit), the RM-B18 highway, and the incorporation branch to the Northwest motorway towards Murcia.

For the first Edil de Bullas "this large-scale work is reason to be happy and comes to highlight the good understanding between local and regional administration."

Noting that "this is a project that has been claimed for a long time and has been updated to, first of all, safeguard the safety of the neighbors and those who circulate in this knot."

In addition, from the City of Bullas are satisfied since another of the improvements of the action will be to provide better lighting roundabout, for which it is planned to place eight light points that will be formed by different columns of 8 meters height and LEDS luminaires.

It also includes the construction of sidewalks in the access from the Northwest highway and the replacement of sanitation, drinking water and street lighting networks.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Bullas