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Campaign of Vialidad Wintry 2013-2014 in the Network of Roads of the State

18/11/2013

18 November 2013

The Ministry responsible for public works and the Home Office, through the General Steering of Traffic and of the General Steering of Civil defence and Emergencies, have set up the campaign of vialidad wintry 2013-2014 in the Network of Roads of the State.

The planned investment in this campaign keeps with regard to the one of previous years, and his budget estimated is of 65,1 million euros. The capacity of the installations of storage of fundentes is upper to the one of previous years, situating the silos and warehouses of fundentes in strategic points. In concrete, the Ministry responsible for public works has in the Network of Roads of the State of 1.330 machines quitanieves and 231.000 tonnes of fundentes, mainly salt, distributed in 367 warehouses and 490 silos.

The Ministry responsible for public works keeps his investment in the campaign of vialidad wintry: 65 million euros.

All the stretches of roads of the Network of the State have assigned a level of service, being prioritaria the attention to those roads with greater Intensity of traffic (IMD), as well as the motorways and autovías that communicate the capitals of province and the populations of more than 20.000 inhabitants.

With this campaign treats to guarantee the safe traffic in the roads of the State in front of situations of frost and snowfall. The main aims are the prevention of the learning of plates of ice on the shod when they expect freezing; the information to the users of the roads of any incidence with the antelación sufficient; and the minimisation of the perturbations to the traffic like consequence of the snowfalls.

Likewise, to facilitate and do more operative the establishment of restrictions to the circulation of heavy vehicles, the Network of Roads of the State has 36 parkings of emergency situated strategically. In them, they will be able to estacionar of way ordered those vehicles that have restricted his circulation temporarily in situations of snowfall.