Monday, December 1, 2008

Four ports closed by snow and another 12 have to move with chains

The storm has hit Castilla and Len during the last few days and ease that only four mountain passes are closed, three in the province of Burgos and a in Salamanca, compared with seven in the evening on Sunday.

addition, 12 others required to use chains to be able to move, eleven of them in Leon and one in Soria, according to sources from the Directorate General of Traffic.

In this way, the province most affected by snow this time is Burgos, where they remain cut off to traffic from the ports of Sia Portillo (Espinosa de los Monteros), Lunada (Portillo of Lunada) and the Stakes Trueba (Stakes on Trueba). To these must be added the Salamanca Puerto de la Pea de France, in the town of El Cabacs.

Ports where it is necessary to use almost all channels belong to the province of Leon. In fact, eleven of the twelve total: Portela (in the town of Balboa), Pidrafita of Babia (Cabrillanes), Fuente de la Cueva (Light), Vegarada (Ligueros), Monteviejo (Prior), Ventana (San Emiliano), Foncebadn (Santa Colomba Somoza), Aralla (Sena de Luna), and ports closed, and Leitariegos Somiedo (Wanaka). In addition, the chains are also mandatory in Puerto de Santa Ines, in Vinuesa (Soria).

Also, snow, ice and fog affect 21 other stretches of roads in the Commonwealth. Avila, Leon and Segovia are taking the brunt in this aspect with six in each case, the two of Zamora (both in Sanabria) and, finally, one in Salamanca, specifically access to the ski station of La Covatilla in village of La Hoya (COP-4).

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