The Brussels Ring East (R0) has been closed since Friday at 10 p.m. between the Genappe and Groenendaal junctions in the direction of Brussels and will reopen on Monday at 4 a.m. About a hundred people are working 24 hours a day on the works. During the next two weekends in August, work will also be done on improving safety on the section of the R0 between Braine-l’Alleud and the border with the Flemish Region.
This weekend the part between Waterloo and the regional border will be tackled. Despite the rain on Saturday morning, work on the top layer of the road surface went well and is now complete. About 4,000 tons of asphalt have been removed and will be replaced by 4 a.m. Monday. Some thirty trucks are used for the job, as well as several planers, including one 4.4 meters wide, which was specially imported from France.
The “wear layer” was removed to a depth of 4 centimeters. However, some of the areas had to be planed to a depth of 10 centimeters due to damage: approximately 1,500 square meters of the total 30,000 square meters that had to be treated. The laying of a new underlay in those zones started on Saturday afternoon. Full paving will begin around 7 p.m., with several machines working side by side across the entire width of the road.
That work is expected to last until 3 a.m. in the morning. The marking work will then start at 04:00 on Sunday morning. Two other sections will be covered over the following weekends. The aim is to complete the entire 3 million euro project before the start of the new school year.
This article is originally published on bruzz.be
