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Bielsa-Aragnouet tunnel will remain closed until December 1
12/09/2011
September 12, 2011
Bielsa-Aragnouet tunnel be closed to midnight movement this September 14 hours to carry out the works of the third stage of the preparation of this infrastructure and will open to traffic at 0600 hours on December 1 of this 2011. The director-general of roads of the Government of Aragon, Miguel Ángel Arminius, has stressed that "it's a forced shutdown already that it is not possible to combine the work with a movement of vehicles inside and that we must end the ditch of medium voltage and network fire, the renewal of the firm, the placement of the wiring of medium voltage""the adequacy of the technical premises of the stabling and placement of fans". This closure was agreed upon for more than one year by the authorities of both sides and by a Committee representing citizens. It should be noted that past December 1, 2010 the tunnel was reopened to traffic after the second closure during which worked 24 hours to mitigate as far as possible the condition on both sides of the Pyrenean massif. Thus, since its reopening has worked in the buildings of the mouths of the same. On the Spanish side started the construction of a control center. It is a 2 storey building: equipment of medium voltage, low voltage and battery Sais, a water tank for reserve fires and a room for storage of equipment in the tunnel will be placed on the ground floor.
