Speed Control Traffic Lights in Casillas Del Ángel

The Cabildo has invested 180 000 euro in a device that detects the velocity of vehicles as they approach the crossing.

Mario Cabrera, Jesús de León, Marcial Morales y Carmen Delia Gutiérrez unveil the third of four such systems that the Cabildo is installing in the Fuerteventura’s central road.

New traffic lights El presidente del Cabildo de Fuerteventura, Mario Cabrera, the councillor for Infrastructure , Jesús de León, the Mayor and councillor for traffic of Puerto del Rosario, Marcial Morales y Carmen Delia Gutiérrez, were today in Casillas del Ángel to verify the functioning of the speed control traffic lights that the Cabildo has had installed at the crossing in this village.

In this way the third of the four systems installed in Fuerteventura was officially opened. Prior to this one in Casillas, signals were already in operation were in operation in Antigua and Tuineje, and as explained the Majoreran president, "it only remains to put into operation the device of Tiscamanita to comply with the objective of improving the security of the main road in the towns of the interior".

"Up to now we have invested 180.000 euro in these signals", declared the insular councillor, Jesus of Lion, who added that the Department of Highways "has not only thought of road security with the installation of the signals and the reasfalting of the highways", said relating to the renewal that has been carried out by the department of infrastructure, with complete resurfacing and the addition of hard shoulders in all the section of the FV-20 that unites Puerto de Rosario with Antigua, but, "also tried to beautify the environment of the highway with the installation of a parallel sidewalk to make travelling by foot more comfortable for the citizens of the town of Casillas".

Speed control Marcial Morales said that "we have responded to an old demand of the neighbours of Casillas del Ángel, in such a way that now they have prettier town in which to be able to stroll, and more importantly, a it is also safer". The motive of the installation of the signals system by the Department of Highways has been that of trying to reduce the velocity of the vehicles that traverse the crossings of four of the most populated nuclei of the interior of the Island, Through which the FV-20, known as the Central Highway, flow". In this way the towns of Casillas del Ángel, Antigua, Tiscamanita y Tuineje which lie on this road, which has traffic densities of five to ten thousand vehicles per day can have a traffic regulation system that increase the safety of all the pedestrians that need to cross this road during the normal daily lives of the towns.

The system of speed control begins 150 metres from the signal, where a sensor installed level with the asphalt detects the velocity of each vehicle at its entrance in the crossing. A second sensor, situated at 50 metres, is the one that measures the velocity 100 metres later, calculating if the reduction of the velocity in this interval has been adequate, in which case the signal will remain amber with priority for the vehicle, provided that it is not exceeding 50 km/hour (the standard speed limit in built up areas), otherwise the signal will turn red. In the same way, the signal has a push-button that can be activated by the pedestrians when they desire to cross, so that the device close the signal some seconds later to grant them the right of

The management of the computer that controls the signal is carried out through a board situated to certain distance from the crossings, and the technicians of the Cabildo as well as the Local Police have a copy of the key that permits activation of the different functions of the device, and to be able in this way to adapt them to all those situations that require a specific control of the traffic.

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