The Havana Bay Tunnel It will be left in the dark this Saturday for maintenance work that will force it to cut off the electricity to its lights between nine in the morning and four in the afternoon.
This was reported by the authorities, making “a call for users to take extreme precautionary measures,” sinceTraffic inside the tunnel will not be interrupted during construction work.
“The Provincial Road Safety Commission of Havana informs the population that this Saturday, from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. The Havana Bay tunnel will not have lighting inside because it will receive maintenance work,” the capital newspaper indicated.Havana Tribune.
The information does not offer further details about the maintenance works.
The Havana Bay tunnel, built in the 1950s during the Batista government, is the largest transit tunnel in Cuba, and connects Old Havana with the east of the city.
With a length of 733 meters, a depth of 12 to 14 meters and four traffic lanes, the bay tunnel isconsidered one of the seven wonders of civil engineering in Cuba.
It was inaugurated on May 31, 1958, built by the French company Societé des Grands Travaux de Marseille, and currently tens of thousands of vehicles pass through it daily.
Traffic in the tunnel is regularly affected byflooding during rainy seasons, or for repairs due to its proximity to the sea and its age.
The poor condition of the roads and highways has been cited by Cuban authorities as one of the main causes of traffic accidents in Cuba, along with the irresponsibility of drivers, the lack of road signs, and the consumption of alcoholic beverages at night. steering wheel.
The bay tunnel has four round-trip paths and is based on a method of reinforced concrete tubes, capable of withstanding the force of thousands of tons of seawater.
The height of the tunnel is 4.25 meters, so access is limited for some large means of transportation. The cost of this colossal work was around 30 million dollars at the time. Its execution lasted about 32 months.
Transit from one end of the tunnel to the other takes about 45 seconds at 60 kilometers per hour, when traffic behaves normally. According to statistics, about 32 thousand vehicles use the facilities of this Havana tunnel every day.
In 2007, the bay tunnel underwent a capital repair that provided it with cutting-edge technology in lighting, electrification, ventilation, pumping, fire-fighting systems, automatically centralized technical management and closed-circuit television for surveillance.
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