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The Ministry of Transport Mobility and Urban Agenda Mitma has awarded for an amount of about 830000 euros VAT included the service contract to draft the project Conditioning of the N-230 road through platform extension and study of implementation of additional overtaking lanes. Section North mouth of the Juan Carlos I Vielha Tunnel in the province of Lleida.Thus the purpose of the project will be to develop with the degree of detail required for a layout and construction project the necessary actions to improve road safety in the section between the north mouth of the Juan Carlos I tunnel and Vielha of 6 kilometers in length between km 157 and 163 by extending its platform to achieve a 7 m wide road with 1 m hard shoulders and ditch Longitudinal safety attached achieving maximum environmental integration of the functional elements of the road.In addition the possibility of establishing additional overtaking lanes in those sections that may be more suitable will be studied in accordance with the provisions of Circular Order 12021 Recommendations for the design of 21 roads and overtaking lanes.The improvement works will be completed with the design of the structural rehabilitation of the road surface that is necessary the study of the implementation of braking beds in particular at the end of the entrance straight to Vielha and an avalanche rescue to replace the current one. It is also part of the project object the processing of the environmental assessment of the action.This action is part of the agenda of actions to improve the N-230 road between Almenar and the French border promoted by Mitma. This road is part of an axis that gives access from Lleida to the Val dAran and France being fundamental for the socioeconomic development of the area.The section between the north mouth of the Juan Carlos I tunnel and the town of Vielha sits in practically its entire length halfway up the slope the cross section barely reaches 7 meters m wide without hard shoulders and has an average slope of 5.7 having to save a slope of 400 m from the height of the tunnel to the town of Vielha in the Garonne Valley. Steep ramps and track conditions make it difficult for slower vehicles to overtake.
