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During the award ceremony, the work of the different actors in the Vallirana project was also recognized, from the development company to the designer, as well as the Site Management. Jordi Ferrando, representing FCC Construcción, receives the award from Pedro Saura, Secretary of State for the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and the Urban Agenda. The director of the National Eastern Area I of FCC Construcción, Jordi Ferrando, thanked, on behalf of all the winners, the award given by the Advisory Council of Infrastructures of Catalonia. Less noise and more tranquility A perfect environmental integration has been achieved along the route by means of the prevention, envi- ronmental restitution and landscape integration measures carried out. Thanks to the new infrastructure, residents have benefited from re - duced traffic, less noise and pollu - tion, and increased road safety. This route is a high-capacity alternative to the long and medium-distance traffic that used to be forced to tra - vel along the N-340, whose speed is limited to 50 kilometers per hour, has numerous intersections, zebra crossings and generated frequent traffic jams. Its length is 2,990 meters, half of which run through a tunnel that consists of two tubes, one for each direction of traffic, about 1,450 me - ters, located under a residential area of the town. The tunnel also consists of two 3.5-meter lanes, one-meter outer verges and half a meter inner ver- ges, with approximately 0.75 meters wide, a double power supply, air quality sensors, emergency lighting, three evacuation galleries between tunnels adapted for people with re- duced mobility and emergency ve- hicles, as well as a radio communi- cations system. Median crossings have been arranged next to each of the tunnel entrances to allow for de- tours in the event of accidents or for maintenance work. Along the section, in order to save the passage over the existing WATCH THE AWARD CEREMONY streams and give access to the nu- cleus of Vallirana and the adjacent urbanizations, six structures have been designed, two transverse dra- inage works and one longitudinal. It also includes two links: The Valli- rana West link, connecting with the CN-340, on the Tarragona side; and the Vallirana East link, connecting with the “Cervelló bypass”, on the Barcelona side. I N N O V A T I O N 57 I N N O V A T I O N