The "Y" highway became a "mousetrap" again. The works for rebounding in the main artery of the region, at the stage of Serín, caused yesterday kilometric traffic jams towards Gijón and Avilés throughout the day. The drivers accuse the Ministry of Public Works of "paralyzing" the center of Asturias and causing "huge economic losses" when doing the works along the week. "We no longer know how to say it: they do what they want", truck drivers criticize after a chaotic day on the road. To the actions of withdrawal of the road surface and asphalting, we also add an accident in the opposite direction to the works by a clash between a car and a truck in the viaduct of Serín in the morning. And if that hadn´t been enough, in Oviedo a truck broke a water pipe on the Rubín Bridge, forcing to cut access to the highway for hours. That was a nightmare at the wheel.?
The works began at 9 pm on Monday without traffic backups. But the image of cars stuck in a row soon appeared: yesterday morning the chaos appeared with more than six kilometers of retentions awoke. Nothing new for drivers. "It is a direct consequence of doing the works on weekdays", Ovidio de la Roza said, president of the Association of Employers of Transport and Car Parks in Asturias (Asetra). Alejandro García, of the association of employers transport companies Cesintra, said: "We do not understand why this determination to work during working hours along the week". However, Raimundo García, head of the Spanish Association of Road Accidentology, appeals to the "responsibility" of motorists and asks for "less complaints". "You can not always blame it on others. If there are bumps you protest because there are bumps, if there are works you protest because there are works too. Things have to be done when appropriate, and we can not say anything against that", García says.
The actions on the road surface are being carried out between kilometers 13,300 and 12,900. They are only four hundred meters that nevertheless affected thousands of cars because it is just where the road from Oviedo forks to Gijón and Avilés. Although Traffic advised the use of AS-I and AS-II highways, among others, the collapse was inevitable. "We have the "Y" so internalized that when we want to realize where we are going, we are already in the traffic jam", Alejandro García says. Alsa, however, was not affected since it uses the AS-I highway to go from Oviedo to Gijón.
The works are scheduled to finish at around eight pm today. Just like yesterday, drivers expect traffic backups, especially in the early hours of the day. So be patient and leave early or look for alternatives.
