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A bit of highway improvement today.

In the city of Deliambert (Sambey cluster), the end of the highway was constructed at an early stage of developement, with a very limited understanding of all the possibilities of RHW, and also possibly a limited amount of options in NAM at the time. The result was a rather poorly designed exit ramp with two sharp 45 degree curves that gave headaches to drivers, generated traffic jams and were the cause of multiple accidents (especially because many drivers ignored the speed limit imposed by the geometry of the roadway). It looked like this:



After many years of fruitless discussions in the municipal council and its transportation commission, a budget was finally voted for the reconstruction of the exit ramp. The plans had been ready for quite a while, and the work required was expedited swiftly by a local consortium of public work enterprises. The new ramp was inaugurated in the past few days, and is shown here:



In a later post I'll illustrate a quite larger reconstruction project for a highway interchange in Arcens.