REPORT



VALENCIA WILL INVEST 14.000 MILLIONS OF PESETAS TO REMOVE THE LEVEL CROSSINGS

COSTA MARTINEZ VERDU


The design of the activities for the Level Crossings Removal and Improvement Plan of the Valencian Govenment has been presented and it foresees an investiment of nearly 14.000 millions of pesetas until the year 2003.


At the present there are 167 level crossings in the Valencian Community and 122 of them have automatic semicrossing gates, light signs or crossing gates with vigilance. When all the actions of the plan are been done, there will be a maximum of 75 level crossings left. All of them will have crossing gates, light signs, etc. The main objective is to reach the maximum levels of security for the road traffic.

This objective would be done with the removal of the level crossings, but this action is not always possible because of the place where they are, urban centers, where it is not possible to put new level crossings, etc. and because of that the plan foresees two kinds of actions:


The Valencian Government has begun an ambitious plan to remove the level crossings.



The first kind is to reduce the crossing levels with the concentration of near crossings of the same line. With the development of this first program the number of crossings is reduce and the ones that will be left will have a automatic security system.

The present situation of this kind of foreseen actions is the following:

1. Lliria-Paterna: the works are being done and they will be finished in the first part of the next year.
2. Rafelbuñol-Alboraya: it is writed the building project, that has passed the public information and the studies about the environment. At the moment it is in supervision and the expropriations have been begun.
3. Bétera-Empalme: the works will be bitted in the period between July and September of 1999.
4. Valencia Sud-Benifayó: the works will be bitted to in the same period.
5. Alginet-Castelló de la Ribera: the different alternatives are being studied.

The second kind of actions is directed to remove the level crossings, specially the ones that permit the building of the structure of a pass over or under the railway. In this case it will be studied a hierarchy of priorities that will be done according of the crossing traffic and the urban characters of the zone where the level crossing is placed.

The foreseen actions of this second king are the following:

1. Removal of three level crossings in Almácera: the works will be bitted in the first period of six months of this year.
2. Removal of a level crossing in Picaña: it will be bitted between the months of April and June of 1999.
3. Removal of one level crossing in La Eliana: this project is included in the duplication of the Líria and La Eliana rail. The writing of the building project will be done in the first three months of 1999. The duplication project includes the removal of one level crossing of the Plá in Ribarroja del Turia.
4. At the present the removal is in public information process in the following towns: Moncada, Picassent, Burjassot, La Puebla de Garnals, Rafelbuñol, Albalat dels Sorells and Valencia (Benimamet in the CV-367 road)

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