The Department of Sports presented at the next plenary session a motion to ask the Highways Agency of the Ministry of Public Works and Planning to be installed in the MU-502 road signboards to be a road frequented by cyclists and fans nature of sports.
Also be asked to also place signage information sheet for pedestrians, cyclists and drivers on road safety recommendations in this infrastructure.
In this regard, the council of the branch, José Antonio Valverde Queen, pointed out that the Autonomous Community of Murcia has made major efforts to improve local roads to make them more secure and thus further reduce accidents .
Among the performances are improving and preserving those made years ago with the settlement of the RM-502 highway, which connects the towns of Totana and Aledo, popularly known as the road to La Santa, and other recent conservation, advocacy and action security that allowed the placement of guardrails and ridges in the asphalt to control speed, among others.
In the same vein, Valverde Queen has indicated that this road is in a privileged enclave in the natural park of Sierra de Espuña and is an infrastructure that connects to many attractions such as the Sanctuary of Santa and Aledo and other spaces landscape of great natural and environmental interest that are centers of attention of many visitors, many sportsmen and nature lovers.
It has also indicated that during the weekends there are many walkers, cyclists and pedestrians sports fans about nature in general that surround these areas come from different places through this means of communication, by the attractive environment presented and the features offered by this mountain road and its surroundings for the practice of certain sports.
The concentration of vehicles, cyclists and athletes in general require more appropriately marked to precisely and accurately inform and promote local culture and extol the traditional values and natural spaces and landscapes that surround the road to La Santa, said the mayor.
For this reason, said the need for improved signage, which would help raise the quality of local and regional tourism product and increase national safety standards for transport by land, and the image of our town as a tourist destination the same way as with the greenways and tourism in the Region of Murcia, such as Northwest or authorized to mark the Jubilee Year of Caravaca de la Cruz.
