(Exclusive) Beja: horizontal markings IP2 "cause" of violations and accidents.
The National Guard has warned the Roads Plain on the serious problems, resulting from poor vertical and horizontal signaling in IP 2. The utility company “does not reply” à GNR.
The Territorial Command Beja (CTB) GNR has made reach Roads Plain, company responsible for road concession of Baixo Alentejo, various reports on the horizontal markings on various sections and roundabouts Main Route (IP) 2, in its area of action, that never received answers.
No final document, sent early last August, that "reinforced" others sent in June and July, based on exposure Traffic Detachment, CTB draws attention to the "great danger for motorists", the said markings represent.
In many parts of IP2, entre Albernoa (Beja) and Vidigueira, access to intersections where there are two lanes and separators were placed granite, at the end of the "fast track", the left, drivers are required, face to signaling, to give way to the right of the vehicle.
The situation is even more serious when a car that overtook another on the left and go to higher speed, arrives at the track end and can hit the rear of the vehicle that is going to lower speed, face to signaling.
But equally or more "cartoonish" is that the roundabout, at the southern entrance in Beja, with the Infantry Regiment 1, a via central, two existing routes, have been "eliminated". All vehicles, in particular heavy passing through said roundabout, They are always in transgression, as unable to move in the same, "You have to tread the path eliminated by the markings", Lidador told the News (LN), a source of Traffic Detachment of GNR Beja.
The same source explained that "if we fine hunting, we had to have two or three computers working on site ", such is the volume of violations that signaling "obliges".
The LN tried to contact the Roads Plain, and asked the CTB GNR and then to a telecommunications company to confirm the utility of the number, that arises in existing vertical plates in IP2, but the answer is always the same "number is not assigned".
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
