Beja: Government will reshape IP2, and remove the roundabouts BA 11 and Shooting Range.
The many accidents, resulting from signaling errors and excesses of some drivers, They led the government to take the decision to "reshape the IP2", the section of the entrance / exit North Beja. As rotundas da BA 11 and Shooting Range "will disappear" and the road recovers the old route.
The case was discussed yesterday during the Council of Ministers, with the diploma to be published in the coming days in the official gazette and the decision communicated to the concessionaire of the highway, so that the contractor, that has not made the delivery of the work for the same is not yet completed, can, in the shortest time, "Proceed to rectification via, making the same return to your original route ".
This decision will lead to the two roundabouts, that they were constructed and identified as "BA 11 and Shooting Range ", are destroyed and the floor rectified with tar, returning to the original route, with the replacement of the respective intersections and exits of IP2.
Provided that the highway has changed and roundabouts were opened to traffic, in September last year, that accidents have been successful. The various ruses caused several injuries and substantial material damage, in motorcycles, light vehicles and heavy.
In January of this year, the Lidador News (LN) He questioned the GNR on accidents, with Major Nuno Santos, Public Relations Territorial Command Beja (CTB), explained that these "succeeded due to poor lighting and signaling on the spot".
The official explained that the CTB, "Promoted" several contacts with the heads of works "stressing the need to increase the visibility conditions on site", adding that "it was requested the strengthening of vertical signage and marking the route" between Beja and Vidigueira.
In their responses to LN, Major Nuno Santos hinted that in the opinion of GNR, signaling approach the roundabout "should be placed farther away form the same" and that "lighting placement" should be another measure to adopt, materialized.
The all this "patchwork", He joined the fact Pedro do Carmo, PS deputy elected by the Beja district, in 27 last January, have questioned the Government "about the plans for the completion of infrastructure of the IP2 and IP8, that part of the road sub Baixo Alentejo ".
In a question to the Ministry of Planning and Infrastructure which recalls the history of the suspension process of the works of IP2 and IP8 by governments PSD / CDS, the Pedro do Carmo deputy executive questioned the current on which "calendar outlook for the full completion of the works of IP2 and IP8, considering the erratic interventions in some sections and the lack of determination on the progress of interventions that lack ".
Pedro do Carmo also moved the Government to the fact that the persistence of these situations "compete for increased road accidents and to be an unacceptable bottleneck to mobility and competitiveness of the territory" for which he was elected as a deputy to the National Assembly.
For this decision of the Executive will not also unconnected with the fact that last day 14 March, Carmo pedro car have burned that section. It is recalled that the LN reported that "Pedro do Carmo, spouse and minor children escape unscathed the fire that reduced “irons” the vehicle they were traveling, The fire occurred in IP2, entre as rotundas da BA 11 and Shooting Range, many motorists already dubbed as the "Section of Can“.
Contacted by Lidador News, Pedro do Carmo refused to make any comment on the subject.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
