Reopening of road axes that were closed by snow in the Algerian states of Al-Sharq – Al-Hiwar

Significant material and human means have been harnessed across several states in the east of the country to reopen the road axes, in which the snow that fell from Saturday to Sunday night obstructed traffic, according to what was learned from the public works directorates in the same states.
In the wilaya of Constantine, 125 maintenance assistants and 43 vehicles were recruited by the Directorate of Public Works in order to remove snow across the axes of roads in which difficult traffic was recorded.
And the head of the office of the Maintenance and Exploitation Department of the same directorate, Ibrahim Lakrum, said that these agents belonging to 6 sub-sections were assigned to reopen closed road axes due to the accumulation of snow, especially through rural and mountainous areas in many municipalities, adding that 10 snowplows and 9 were also allocated. A loading mechanism, 6 back-loading and digging mechanisms, 6 leveling mechanisms, in addition to 12 intervention trucks belonging to many public and private institutions in the same sector.
And in Khenchela, 10 snowplows, 14 trucks and 12 agricultural tractors equipped with a salt spreader were harnessed to reopen the axes of several state and national roads, which snow caused obstruction of traffic.
And the Director of Public Works, Jawad Zahana, explained that the Sector Directorate has put all the material capabilities at disposal with the harnessing of 24 tires belonging to the Directorate of Public Works, 72 workers, 31 drivers and 3 drivers of large machinery to reopen traffic through various roads that were known to form layers of snow that reached a thickness of up to 25 cm in the western region of the state.
And the same official added that the same directorate employed shift teams across the various subdivisions located across all departments of the state to work all day hours and intervene in the event of a difficulty in traffic through the axes of state and national roads located in the territory of the same state.
And in Setif, important possibilities have been harnessed to remove snow from the roads and open them to traffic, represented by 96 vehicles belonging to the wilaya of the Directorate of Public Works, as informed by the same directorate.
The matter concerns 18 snow plows, 15 rear loaders, 13 tractors, 48 ​​salt-pulverizing trucks weighing 2.5 tons each and two levels, in addition to approximately 650 workers, according to the same source, who added that the process of removing accumulated snow and salting is on a high level. The roads of the state, especially in the northern region, which has known heavy snowfall since last night, Saturday, such as Bouqaa, Qanzat, Sarj al-Ghul and Bani Aziz, are still continuing.
For its part, the interests of the Directorate of Public Works in Qelma harnessed 7 snowplows and various equipment to remove the accumulated snow on the roads during the last hours, according to the Director of Public Works.
Salem Nawaser explained that the most important means used in addition to snow plows were 4 charging machines and quantities of salt to remove snow, along with leveling machines and light trucks to transport the intervening municipal workers, highlighting that the interventions included the axes of national, state and municipal roads in the regions of Tamluka, Ain Sandal, Ain Al-Arabi and Ben. Jarrah and Bath of Nobles.
Numerous interventions were also recorded on closed road axes or in which traffic was difficult in other states in the east of the country, while providing assistance to many citizens.