Expansion joints for Spain's highest viaduct

摘要

Amidst a mountain wilderness, a new highway system rises, featuring Spain's highest viaduct. Transflex expansion joints form the Swedish company Trelleborg span the space between the decking and the abutments on the viaduct. For years, motorists and truck drivers have had to endure the slow and tortuous climb from Molledo on the Cantabrian northern lowlands, up the N-611, climbing through the Cantabrian mountains to Palencia, on the Meseta - Spain's high central plateau. It is a dangerous road liable to traffic hold-ups, delays and accidents, and frequently impassable in the depths of winter. Now the N-611 is all but deserted, used mostly by local traffic. In its place is the new Molledo-Pesquero section of the A-67 -Autovia de la Meseta - a welcome addition to Spain's highway system.