Repair and maintenance works The attacks on the Havana Bay Tunnel and the closure of one of its mouths to traffic have forced drivers to detour along the Vía Blanca to travel between Eastern Havana and the center of the capital.
Recommended by the authorities, this alternative route is absorbing the traffic normally used by theBay Tunnel, which is estimated at around 32 thousand vehicles per day.
The intense traffic that now circulates on the Vía Blanca caused this Mondaya multiple accident that left at least five vehicles damaged, with no injuries reported in the incident.
Of thealmonds and three modern cars, including ataxi, were involved in a chain reaction apparently triggered by braking at a traffic light that caused a wave of impacts between these vehicles.
A motorized police officer was at the scene, according to thevideos posted in the groupFacebook ‘Bus & Truck Accidents’.
According tostatements offered for theCuban Television by the colonelRoberto Rodríguez Fernández, head of the Specialized Transit Department of theNational Revolutionary Police (PNR), motorized units are located in critical points of the city to contribute to the fluidity and safety of road traffic.
However, this Monday neither the measures taken by the authorities nor their warnings could prevent an accident that, although no serious injuries were caused, will entail considerable expense for a good number of private car drivers.
The Havana Road Company and the Transport Construction Company are responsible for the repair and maintenance work, which is expected to be completed in approximately one week, barring unforeseen events.
“Three days will be dedicated to demolition, formwork and concreting, and subsequently seven days will be waited for the first phase of concrete setting, until the tunnel is reopened,” explained last Saturday the general director of the National Road Center,Sandra Loureiro Rodríguez.
The directive explained that, once the tunnel is ready to open, “the protection plate will be placed again on a grid [on which work is being done], with the aim of protecting it until May 5, when the final setting of the tunnel is reached.” the tunnel entrance.”
For his part, Rodríguez Fernández assured that “those responsible for the maintenance actions confirmed that [they have] the resources to work and undertake the necessary actions, including new actions that appear as maintenance is carried out, [and that ] may require another type of repair activity or arrangements.
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