The Cabildo’s Recebe train, in collaboration with the Puerto del Rosario City Council, improves the tracks.
The Cabildo of Fuerteventura, from the Service of Works and Machinery, these days one of his trains recebe destined to review the running surface of the dirt tracks that connect the various enclaves, farms and houses of La Matilla. The Cabildo of Fuerteventura, in collaboration with the City Council of Puerto del Rosario, has scheduled these works with its specialized machinery to recover the safety and comfort of these roads, affected by the action of wind and rain, in addition to the transit of vehicles.
The president of the Cabildo, Lola García, explains that the work is part of the line of work of the Island Corporation that focuses on maintaining roads and roads in optimal conditions, improving the safety and comfort of vehicles and people who transit them.
The Councilor for Works and Machinery of the Cabildo, Blas Acosta, recalls that “road safety is a shared objective that concerns the Cabildo’s Works and Machinery and Road Services, the municipalities and the road users themselves, each in their own field; the administrations work to improve the safety conditions of asphalt and dirt roads, while drivers of cars, goods transport, bicycles, etc., must make an effort to obey the traffic signs at all times”.
With the work of the train in La Matilla, access to homes and farms in this area of the municipality is facilitated and the quality of life of the residents of Puerto del Rosario is sustained, both in terms of the transit of private vehicles and in terms of the movement of the local economy through goods and services.
For this purpose, it uses specialized vehicles such as a water bucket, motor grader and road roller. The combined work of these three types of machinery makes it possible to restore firmness and homogeneity to the wearing course, qualities necessary for safe driving.
These works are part of the Cabildo’s commitment to maintain rural and coastal roads in optimal conditions, especially in areas where access to homes, agricultural and livestock farms and leisure areas on the Majorero coast depends largely on this type of tracks. The objective is to facilitate mobility and improve the safety of those who use these infrastructures, many of which are vital for the economic and social activity of the environment.
It should be recalled that the work of the Cabildo’s Works and Machinery Service’s reclaim trains is constant, planned and cyclical, since most of the island’s tracks are made of earth and require periodic care.
