2023-08-12 16:05:02
The eastern Ring of Brussels (R0) has been closed since Friday at 10:00 p.m. between the Genappe and Groenendael interchanges in the direction of Brussels, and will reopen on Monday at 4:00 a.m. The works in progress – carried out by Sofico, the manager of the Walloon motorway network, and the public service of Wallonia (SPW) Mobility and Infrastructures – occupy around a hundred workers 24 hours a day. During the next two weekends in August, it will be a question of completing the site aimed at rehabilitating but also improving safety on the portion of the R0 located between Braine-l’Alleud and the limit of the Flemish region.
This weekend, it is the portion between Waterloo and the regional limit which is treated. Despite the rain on Saturday morning, the planing operations of the top layer of the surfacing went well and have been completed. Some 4,000 tonnes of asphalt have been removed and will be replaced by 4 a.m. Monday. About thirty trucks are used for this, as well as several planers, including one 4.4 m wide specially brought from France.
The “wear layer” is removed by 4 cm. Some more degraded areas are however subject to planing over 10 cm: this is regarding 1,500 m2 out of a total of 30,000 m2 to be treated. The laying of a new underlayment in these areas began on Saturday followingnoon. Around 7:00 p.m., the complete paving will begin with several machines advancing abreast over the entire width of the road, in order to avoid longitudinal joints which are sources of cracks and subsequent damage.
These operations should last until 03:00 in the morning. And from 04:00 a.m. on Sunday, the marking work will begin. Two other sections will be treated over the coming weekends, the objective being to complete this entire three million euro project before the start of the school year.
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