CAMAGÜEY.- (ACN) With a state of the road network that accumulates years of deterioration, in this city are invested about five million pesos in the repair and maintenance of about 30 streets, with priority for the fundamental urban corridors, where there are a greater vehicular concentration.

One of the most important actions to be undertaken this year is the intervention of Simoni Street, an artery that constitutes an underused urban corridor and would relieve traffic on the Central Highway and other roads.

Around 700 meters will be recovered with actions from the ground movement to the completion of the sidewalks in the most complex stretch, between Padre Valencia and General Gomez streets that will favor the transit mainly of horse drawn cars, which cannot travel in The historical center.

Simoni is one of the links between the railroad terminal, the historic center of the city and the area of some of the largest hospitals in the province, and its recovery will allow to return the use that that corridor had some years ago.

Another 35 vital streets will be benefited in the next 10 days with a bump removal program, undertaken by three brigades of two construction companies, as part of the works in greetings to July 26, National Rebelliousness Day.

Nevertheless, the figures foreseen for maintenance and repair are well below the real need of the city, and by extension of the municipality of Camagüey, where the streets situation is one of the points that greater approaches accumulate in the processes of Accountability of the Popular Power in the communities.

According to José Antonio Martínez Carballo, Deputy Director of Investments of the Municipal Direction of Communals, from these demands are accomplished the projects, that are included a year later in the budget for the repairs.

The scope of the interventions is limited by several economic factors, from the high cost of road engineering to the lack of technical means of the Comprehensive Provincial Maintenance Company, the executor of these works, said the official.

As an alternative, brigades and means of other construction companies are hired, but only for the larger approaches, while others are still pending that also generate discomfort in the population.

Translated by Ludys Peguero Domínguez/ 3rd year English Language student.