New Bridge for the Chicama Abanilla

Goodbye to the old bridge over the Chicama from Abanilla to Mahoya...

Goodbye to the old bridge over the Chicama

After a hundred years of carrying all types of people, vehicles and the famous Cangurotos the old Chicama River Bridge connecting Mahoya and Abanilla is now very close to it’s long awaited retirement buy the Labor of the Ministrey of Public Works.

2010 will be the final year the single lane bridge and the bottleneck we have all come to love. As a tribute the Chicama Bridge will remain open to pedestrians and a commemorative plaque will be place on the bridge for people to visit.

It's been almost a century and has never failed," explained the mayor, Fernando Molina, but times change and we must give way to progress. The new bridge will be 255 meters long with a platform width of 11 meters, which allow not only the movement of vehicles in each direction (two lanes) of 3.5 meters, also two pedestrian sidewalks of 2 meters.

The Minister of Public Works, José Ballesta, added that the new bridge will have eight spans of 30 meters each to cross the Chicama River.

The bridge is part of the EUR 2.734 million that the Ministry has invested to "improve the security of one of the largest industrial and extractive activities in the region", stressed Ballesta.

In fact more than 30 construction companies began  the foundation of this new infrastructure, the Ministry first improved the layout of the RM-412 and Mahoya Abanilla linking, eliminating 15 curves and correcting the radius of others.

A thousand vehicles daily benefit of the new layout, signs and beacons of the RM-412 opened to traffic through the old bridge, thus fulfilling its last mission before retirement. "Between November and December, will be ready the new and the old bridge will be closed to traffic" ahead abanillero the first mayor, Fernando Molina.

Information supplied by the Abanilla Town Hall & Laverdad.es